An easy and popular method for measuring the size of the underground economy is to use macro-data such as money demand or electricity demand to infer what the legitimate economy needs, and then to attribute the remaining consumption to the underground economy. Such inferences rely on the...

Joint-stock companies are among the most fundamental components of a market economy. “Voucher privatization” in the Czech Republic saw an abrupt mushrooming of joint-stock companies where none had appeared for over a generation. This occurred in an environment lacking in guiding...

The paper demonstrates how survey methods and retrospective questions can be put to effective use in the study of shadow-economy dynamics; specifically, the evolution of tax evasion in the Czech Republic. The authors measure the average individual's transition between the shadow and official...

Building upon exhaustive research of extant and often fragmentary contemporary resources, this paper provides a thorough analysis of financial options trading and sales in interwar Czechoslovakia. Whilst focusing primarily on a remarkable bucketshop episode occuring in the late twenties and...

V článku navrhujeme tři metody přepočtu hlasů na mandáty pro volby do Poslanecké sněmovny Parlamentu ČR (PS PČR) založené na metodách matematického programování. Důvod pro jejich zavedení spatřujeme v tom, že běžně používané metody přepočtu hlasů na mandáty často...

The economic theory of the last decades deals with how certain models of institutions and incentives could improve the coordination of individual actions in society. Setting rules regulating relationships between economic agents is considered as the key requirement of such coordination....

Czech Abstract: Cílem kvalifikační práce je vysvětlení řešení problému korupce z pohledu dvou ekonomických teorií a nalezení řešení problému korupce, které by bylo platné pro obě vysvětlené ekonomické teorie. V metodologické části je argumentováno ve prospěch...