The paper explores the long-term fiscal implications of population aging in the Czech Republic. The results, although bearing a significant margin of uncertainty due to the very long-term character of the projection exercise, do not impart encouraging fiscal outlooks for the Czech Republic. This...

The paper analyzes the fiscal position of Czech public budgets. It focuses on the structural and the cyclical parts of the budget deficits and concludes that public budgets were in structural deficit as early as 1994. The authors propose three methods toward estimating the potential output of...

Public finance represents an increasingly important issue in the political and economic debates in the Czech Republic, comprising both practical and theoretical matters, many of which (namely, tax revenue development, contingent liabilities, structural budget deficits, and fiscal federalism) are...

This article deals with the forecasting of the main tax revenues in the Czech economy. The authors analyze the relationship between taxes (value added, excise, corporate income, personal income, and social-security contributions) and selected macroeconomic variables (especially, GDP and wage...