The paper concentrates on the description of the Czech institutions which provide credit support to small and medium-sized entrepreneurs, farmers and exporters. The paper analyses the operations of the Czech-Moravian Guarantee and Development Bank and the Support and Guarantee Agricultural and...

This paper shows results of comparison of the original theoretical conception of modeling human decisions under risk with two well known models. In the paper the demand function for insurance is constructed for the model of maximization of the probability of agent’s (economical) survival. This...

This article is dealed about the requirements on new architecture of financial markets, namely for banking and insurance market. The principles of Basel II and Solvency II are discussed. The second part of article concerned with quality changes in comercial insurable risk and financial decesion...

Práce se zabývá popisem českých institucí podporujících úvěry poskytované malým a středním podnikatelům, zemědělcům a vývozcům. Analyzovanými institucemi jsou Exportní garanční a pojišťovací společnost, Česká exportní banka, Českomoravská záruční a rozvojová...

Our rapidly changing world has been challenging insurers to keep the pace. Given the qualitative changes in risk trends, the insurance industry has encountered a problem of insurability limits and shifting boundaries of the private insurance sector. The possibilities of covering enormous...

The aim of the paper is to introduce Kirzner's theory of entrepreneurial discovery as a complement and an alternative to the mainstream theory. In the first and the second sections, the author explains the main influences of Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich August von Hayek's works on...