Can tight and centralized financial regulation prevent financial crises? Governments usually respond to financial crises with tightening and centralizing financial regulation. In this paper, we explore the historical parallels between the governmental responses to the financial crises at the end...

Can tight and centralized financial regulations prevent financial crises? Governments usually respond to financial crises with tightening and centralizing financial regulations. In this paper, we explore the historical parallels between the governmental responses to the financial crises at the...

Statistical measurement of government has become, along with the growing extent of government interventionism, one of the main challenges for statisticians. Higgs has dealt with some aspects of how the size of government is commonly expressed (Higgs, 1991; Higgs, 2015). Aim of this paper is to add...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the self-enforcing nature of business cycle synchronisation in the process of monetary integration. Application of value added concept for description of business cycle and as a indicator of total economic activity is also discussed in the paper

The pension liabilities drew a wide attention due to ageing of population, especially the liabilities originating in the operation of the unfunded scheme (pay-as-you-go). Changing demographic situation and the interest of users gave rise to a request on the provision of a new data aiming to...

The aim of this paper is to discuss the substance of macroeconomic aggregates that are commonly used in empirical research to express the size of government. Although public sector aggregates normally provide a basis for the assessment of the size of government, there are broader aggregates that...

The aim of this paper is to bring a contribution to the clarification of the terms such as public finance, public sector or government which are widely used in economic analysis or in public finance management. In the Czech environment, those terms are understood differently across statistical,...

Main aim of the paper is to discuss the relation between government deficit and debt and the importance of the aggregate known as stock-flow adjustments. The development of Czech government's debt confronted with deficits in the last years gave raise to a number of questions which are dealt with...

Economic situation of the government described by the indicators of the national accounts is currently underthe spotlight of the professional public. The indicators have its relevance to considerations of the fiscal sustainability and the European Monetary Union enlargement. However, awareness...