The present article is focused on the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and its implementation into American Stock Market. It attempts to empirically test the validity of the CAPM to estimate individual stock returns based on historical stock data of selected companies. Security Market Line...

The power-generation industry offers numerous opportunities to apply real options. This paper uses current empirical market data to estimate the value of flexibility in the Czech energy sector, which can serve to compare available technologies, and support various investment decisions. The model...

The paper deals with comparison’s problems size of the stock markets in European Union, first of all in the Viszegrad Four countries that mean Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary. Attention is paid on the historical development of the stock markets in these countries, comparison and...

Long-term memory processes have been extensively examined in recent literature as they provide simple way to test for predictability in the underlying process. However, most of the literature interprets the results of estimated Hurst exponent simply by its comparison to its asymptotic limit of...

The aim of this article is to characterise the process of consumer and mortgage loans legislative harmonization as a part of reduction of credit market integration barriers. The harmonization of consumer credit market law is a long-term process in European Union. For mortgage loan markets, the...

The present article is focused on analysis of US and Japan government bonds´ market and revealing possible price bubbles while considering the effect of Quantitative Easing and other chosen macroeconomic factors. The aim is set if on these selected market exists price bubble or we can speak...

The present article deals with associations between the development of money supply measured by the monetary base M2 and the development of the Japanesee wider stock index Nikkei 225. The objective of the article is set if the money supply is significant macroeconomic factor which cause the...

The focus of this article are lump sum and regular investments on selected world stock markets in the period from 1990 to 2010 for different investment horizons. The aim of this Paper is to compare and evaluate lump sum and regular investments on world stock markets according to the return-risk...

The focus of this article is the relationship between selected oil company's stock price and oil price and the dependence of these companies stock price on oil price in the period from year 2000 to 2010. The aim of this paper is pursuant to partial empirical analysis evaluate the dependence of...