The government is able to acquire real goods through printing money. Because government does not create wealth through printing money, this revenue, the seigniorage, is at the expense of the public, as the purchasing power of monetary units decreases because of the issue of new money. The...

The paper analyses the factors leading to the fall of long-term interest rates in the Czech Republic – respectively, the long-term interest rate differential in the Czech Republic and the Eurozone – between 1998 and 2003. The selection of factors is determined by the Fisher equation, UIP,...

This paper examines features of the Czech stock market’s development from 1997 to 2003 and attempts to unveil the macroeconomic consequences of stock-price development. The analysis of the stock market’s behavior supports a cautionary stance on the hypothesis of the efficient-market theory,...

The transformation of the world economy over the past two decades has been manifesting itself in various forms. On the one hand, there is an increasing interdependence of the world economy, which is a manifestation of the depth of the globalization process, mainly thanks to the expansion of...

The efficiency of macroeconomic policies depends on adequate business cycle approximation. Given that potential output and the output gap (the difference between actual and potential output) are not directly observable, their values need to be estimated using alternative statistical, structural,...

Financovanie zahraničného obchodu je dôležitou súčasťou financovania obchodných aktivít firiem zaoberajúcich sa exportom a importom. Pre každú firmu, ktorá sa zaoberá zahraničným obchodom má veľký význam správna voľba platobných a zabezpečovacích nástrojov. Od správnej...

In this paper historical performance of eleven approaches for estimation of one-day 95% value-at-risk is evaluated. Random sample of 1000 foreign exchange portfolios consisting of positions in EUR and USD with CZK as a base currency was considered. Since foreign exchange portfolio consists of...

The paper presents empirical analysis of influence of different ownership forms on efficiency of Czech and Slovak banks using the Stochastic Frontier Analysis. The paper brings new results as it uses set of data which has not been used previously in the literature. On the set of 44 Czech and 21...

Svetová finančná kríza, ktorá postupne prerástla do globálnej ekonomickej krízy vo veľkej miere ovplyvnila aj svetový obchod a obchodné financovanie. Obchodné financovanie je pre medzinárodný obchod nevyhnutnosťou, a preto ICC (International Chamber of Commerce) na podnet WTO...

Príspevok sa zaoberá procesom otvárania sa Slovenska svetu z pohľadu sektoru bankovníctva. Poukazuje na špecifiká bankovníctva v ČSSR, ČSFR a na reformy po rozpade Federácie.