This article deals with methodological aspects of utilities´ regulation. First, basic principles of regulation and specialities of firms operating in utilities´ industries are explained. Next, the article discusses three basic regulation methods, including cost-of-service (COS) regulation,...

Tato studie se zabývá otázkou, zda nekoordinovaná opatření některých států měnící parametry národních systémů pojištění vkladů zavedená v polovině roku 2008 mohla vést k přesunu vkladů mezi členskými státy Evropské unie. Pozornost je věnována především...

This work examines specific issues concerning the prudential management and regulation of foreign exchange risk. It begins with a description of the basic components of foreign exchange risk management. A central but frequently forgotten point of foreign exchange risk is that the key to its...

Tato studie se zabývá otázkou, zda nekoordinovaná opatření některých států měnící parametry národních systémů pojištění vkladů zavedená v polovině roku 2008 mohla vést k přesunu vkladů mezi členskými státy Evropské unie. Pozornost je věnována především...

The paper analyzes an important part of the institutional quality - regulation and studies relation between the regulatory environment and the bureaucratic barriers. The analysis is based on theoretical models of the comparative institutional economics. In the paper, we discuss possibilities of...

The article deals with areas of initial public offerings of shares and their influence on the development of stock markets in the countries of the Visegrad Four. IPO, also known as the "IPO" is the process of newly issued shares of the stock markets. Development of the newly made IPO affects not...

The paper examines the potential of stochastic simulation methods and Earnings at Risk method in risk analysis of farming business. The results revealed a different nature of yield and price risks in agriculture. The natural yields are low spatially correlated and the rate of yield risk depends...

Long-term memory processes have been extensively examined in recent literature as they provide simple way to test for predictabilty in the underlying process. However, most of the literature interprets the results of estimated Hurst exponent simply by its comparison to its asymptotic limit of...