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Choice between the Discrete and Continuous Models in Economic Applications and Its Implications

Kadeřábek, Petr - In: Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2005 (2005) 1, pp. 21-26

may have important stability implications. We choose a more general approach and consider the choice not only between … a particular step length is stable or not and some implications about the stability of the same system with different … step lengths. As a special case we get a relationship between stability of a discrete model and the corresponding …

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Vield curve construction using government bonds in the Czech republic

Málek, Jiří; Radová, Jarmila; Štěrba, Filip - In: Politická ekonomie 2007 (2007) 6, pp. 792-808

The paper deals with yield curve construction methods using coupon bonds in Czech bond market. Generally, there are more possibilities how to approach this problem: bootstraping, splines, parametric functions. Due to the lack of tradable public bonds and due to the fact that existing bonds do...

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The Sustainability of House Price Trends in the Czech Republic

Lux, Martin; Sunega, Petr - In: Politická ekonomie 2010 (2010) 2, pp. 225-252

On the background of current global mortgage crisis the article discusses the housing market theory and particularly the methods and indicators used for the evaluation of long-term sustainability of house price trends. The authors provide the time series of such indicators for selected OECD...

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The Supply of Foreign Direct Investment Incentives: Subsidy Competition in an Oligopolistic Framework / Nabídka pobídek pro zahraniční investory: Soutěž o FDI v rámci oligopolu [av...

Havránek, Tomáš - Institut ekonomických studií, Univerzita Karlova v Praze - 2007

Jaké motivy vedou vlády k poskytování pobídek zahraničním investorům? Které aspekty nejvíce ovlivňují nabízený objem úlev? Nakolik je mezinárodní „pobídková soutěž“ intenzivní? Jako nástroj zkoumání těchto otázek představíme dva mikroekonomické modely nabídky...

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Application of Simulation in Analysing Business Processes

Dlouhý, Martin; Jablonský, Josef - In: Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2009 (2009) 6, pp. 27-36

Business processes take place in an environment of complex systems that consist of many interrelated elements with stochastic and dynamic characteristics. Simulation and management methods were developed to cope with such complexity. Simulation and management methods are interdependent...

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Time series of monthly and yearly inflation rates and their properties

Arlt, Josef; Bašta, Milan - In: Politická ekonomie 2008 (2008) 4, pp. 536-556

Monthly and yearly inflation rates can be understood as rates of dynamics of the basic inflation indicator i.e. the consumer price index. These indicators modify the original inflation information. It is important to analyze the difference of the consumer price index, monthly and yearly...

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Alternative Production Models in Economic Theory

Dlouhý, Martin - In: Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2011 (2011) 5, pp. 34-47

In the paper, marginal analysis and linear programming are described and then compared as two independent theoretical approaches to production theory. Although marginal analysis dominates economic literature, we argue that linear programming is an equivalent theory with some advantages and, of...

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Nabídková funkce ve vysokoškolském vzdělávání / Supply of university education [available in Czech only]

Hlaváček, Jiří - Institut ekonomických studií, Univerzita Karlova v Praze - 2005

In this paper we construct a supply function of university education, i.e. the dependence of the supply (the number of places for students) on its price, i.e. on the revenue of university (either from scholarship or from state support) per student. We derive our results from an optimization...

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Possibilities of Financial Crises Forecasting with Latent Semantic Indexing

Hájek, Petr; Střižík, Michal; Praks, Pavel; … - In: Politická ekonomie 2009 (2009) 6, pp. 754-768

Our study contains application of Latent Semantic Indexing on financial crises prediction. Hypothesis to test was that equity markets are able to predict even sharp changes in monetary policy during a quarter ahead of such a change (which was searched during two quarters that followed). This...

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Replication Methods in the Pricing and Hedging of Barrier Options

Tomáš, Tichý - In: Czech Journal of Economics and Finance (Finance a uver) 54 (2004) 7-8, pp. 305-324

This paper considers various options replication methods. Firstly, a specific type of barrier option, an up-and-out call, is considered. Other barrier options are briefly also described, and various types of barriers are considered. Secondly, a general definition of replication methods is...

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