This paper asks to what extent were the last one hundred policy decisions taken by the Czech National Bank (CNB) considered predictable by the market. The results are threefold. First, CNB policy decisions can be considered as predictable on average. Second, policy predictability followed no...

The article summarizes the recent seminar of the Czech Economic Association devoted to the Nobel Prize laureates in economics for 2000, James J. Heckman and Daniel L. McFadden. A paper presented by M. Zajícek concentrated mainly on the work of Mr. McFadden. Economic problems, especially those...

his article summarizes a recent seminar of the Czech Economic Association devoted to the relationship between psychology and economics. While economic methodology strives for scientific reasoning, the course of this pursuit often results in the neglect of the behavioral aspects of economic...

The authors of this paper argue that European Monetary Union (EMU) member countries are likely to respond differently to the single monetary policy of the European Central Bank. Disparities are inevitable, they maintain, given differences in monetary policy transmission due mainly to the...

The Czech Economic Association has once again awarded young economists for contributions made to economic research. Each awarded presented a lecture that dealt with economic methodology. This article summarizes the lectures, each of which addressed a specific methodological topic: evolution,...

The article summarizes papers presented at two seminars organized by the Czech Economic Association in November 1999 held in Ostrava and Jindøichùv Hradec, respectively. The first seminar, ?Financial Indicators and the Czech Economy,? attracted papers aimed at both presenting the theory and...

Cílem èlánku je ukázat interakci mezi indikaèními schopnostmi èasové struktury úrokových sazeb vzhledem k inflaci èi reálné ekonomické aktivitì a reakèní funkcí centrální banky v malém makroekonomickém modelu èeské ekonomiky. Autor nejprve argumentuje, že ohodnocení...

The article focuses on the development and performance of inflation targeting in the Czech Republic. It is shown that the particulars of the Czech inflation-targeting regime developed from a rather specific setting toward a framework based on international best practices. Its performance is...

The paper offers a preliminary analysis of possible spontaneous euroization in the Czech economy. After a brief general introduction of the issue of currency substitution it specifically discusses two things. First, the transmission channels of potential spontaneous euroization, through which...