The paper considers company performance measures and the development of the Economic Value Added (EVA) indicator in volatile economies, particularly in the case of the Czech Republic. Methods used for pyramidal analysis, their assumptions, and their application possibilities are discussed. A...

The relatively long term period of stability before the present crises called even "Great Moderation" or "Golden Age of Central Banking" indicated that the infl ation targeting was a success story. As of 2008 a lot has changed and the debate over "Leaning against the wind or Clean afterwards?"...

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...

While the significance of tourism for the Czech Republic's economy is relatively high, it is far from being the dominant industry. Despite the recent substantial investments in this particular field of economic activity, the share of tourism in the gross value added has been steadily declining,...

The year 2008 was probably the most difficult year for automotive industry since Second World War. Economical crisis, which started in United Stated, extended dramaticly and fast through financial sector and then found automotive industry as one of the biggest victim.Car industry is really...

The paper sums up various data from the Czech economy concerning the issue of the current so-called credit crisis, i.e. the situation when financial institutions are lending money to businesses only with a considerable amount of distrust and much more prudence than in the past. Based on specific...

The article deals with a numerical comparison of impacts of financial crises on the stock market over the last one hundred years. The goal of the analysis is to investigate, according to certain criteria, whether the current crisis on the stock market is more serious than the previous ones.

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...

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...