Business processes take place in an environment of complex systems that consist of many interrelated elements with stochastic and dynamic characteristics. Simulation and management methods were developed to cope with such complexity. Simulation and management methods are interdependent...

The article deals with a numerical comparison of impacts of financial crises on the stock market over the last one hundred years. The goal of the analysis is to investigate, according to certain criteria, whether the current crisis on the stock market is more serious than the previous ones.

Building upon exhaustive research of extant and often fragmentary contemporary resources, this paper provides a thorough analysis of financial options trading and sales in interwar Czechoslovakia. Whilst focusing primarily on a remarkable bucketshop episode occuring in the late twenties and...