The focus of this article are lump sum and regular investments on selected world stock markets in the period from 1990 to 2010 for different investment horizons. The aim of this Paper is to compare and evaluate lump sum and regular investments on world stock markets according to the return-risk...

Monograph on the Causal Relation of Money Supply and American Stock Market deals with the effect of the change of nominal money supply on the American stock index in the studied period 1967–2014. The „Industrial“ stock index Dow Jones Industrial Average, which is considered a barometer of...

Hedging strategies represent basic instrument used toward eliminating financial risk. Increasing volatility of financial markets and their globalization also lead to higher financial risks. These aspects are especially important for transitional and small open economies. The basic goal of the...

Volatility of the financial time series belongs to the crucial estimated parameters in finance (e.g. in risk management, derivative pricing). It is well known, that volatility varies in time, so that new approaches of volatility modeling have appeared. In this paper two models of the conditional...

The article deals with a typical phenomenon of financial time series - volatility. These time series usually embody intermittent periods of relative "calm" and quite high variability. A volatility modelling of time series is made with the help of special econometric volatility models which...

The paper deals with comparison’s problems size of the stock markets in European Union, first of all in the Viszegrad Four countries that mean Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary. Attention is paid on the historical development of the stock markets in these countries, comparison and...

Long-term memory processes have been extensively examined in recent literature as they provide simple way to test for predictability 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...

The aim of this article is to characterise the process of consumer and mortgage loans legislative harmonization as a part of reduction of credit market integration barriers. The harmonization of consumer credit market law is a long-term process in European Union. For mortgage loan markets, the...