This study focuses on the closed-end funds in the Czech Republic. Using event-study methodology and weekly data for 24 funds from July 1996 to July 2001, this paper investigates the price and discount reaction to key events associated with the open-ending of the closed-end funds. The findings...

This paper deals with the problems of organizational culture management and transfer. Current theoretical concepts of organizational culture are discussed in the first part, so that they can be used in the application part. The second part of the article is based on the results of a case study...

The social responsibility concept is quite broad and relies on three pillars - economical efficiency, environmental responsibility and social involvement. In recent years we have lived in a world of rising interest in the isssues of social responsibility, that is supported not only by the...

The firms approach in the new economics to your activities comprehensively. The maximization of the firm´s value and the continuous corporate social responsibility are themost important goals of the firms. The corporate social responsibility is the important characteristic of the new economy....

The paper presents an empirical analysis of the Prague stock exchange as a whole approximated by the index and also selected issues traded on the Prague stock exchange. The goal of the paper is to verify the relationship between the market as a whole and the selected issues on one hand and...

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...