This paper is dedicated to venture capital as a way of company funding in IT sector. The aim of the thesis is to analyze and evaluate an impact of using venture capital financing on selected businesses (IT companies in Czech Republic) according to changes in selected indicators financial...

The description of contemporary application of Corporate Governance principles in Czech companies. The prezentation of Corporate Governance decision steps. The definition of Corporate Governance individual practices in Czech companies. Presentation of future system development of Corporate...

This paper uses new firm-level data to examine the effects of breakups of the Czech firms and their subsequent privatization on corporate performance. Unlike the existing literature, which analyzes breakups almost exclusively in advanced economies, we control for accompanying ownership changes...

The article presents initial empirical findings about corporate reorganizations ordered in 2010 (with cut-off date as of March 2011), the third year after the coming into force of the new Czech Insolvency Act. These findings are compared to similar findings made in relation to the period...

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...

This paper provides a brief but comprehensive overview of microfinance academic literature with emphasis on recent innovations, trends and efficiency. In particular, we focus on controversial issues of microfinance, such as commercialization, regulation, interest rate policy and the balance...

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) finance their business activities primary with clients’ deposits, equity or with external funding. The aim of our thesis is to determine whether macroeconomic development and the size of banking sector affect the range of external funding and consequently the...

This paper investigates the possible reasons why many microfinance institutions (MFIs) have gradually experienced a decrease in the share of female borrowers in their portfolios over the last few years. We confirm that the share of women may be decreasing due to the growing dependence of the...

Agregátní úvěry v selhání jsou úvěry bankovního sektoru se zpožděnými splátkami. Tento článek zkoumá, jak agregátní úvěry v selhání, jakožto indikátor agregátního kreditního rizika, reagují na makroekonomický vývoj v České republice v letech 1993-2014. Naše...

Práce se zabývá popisem českých institucí podporujících úvěry poskytované malým a středním podnikatelům, zemědělcům a vývozcům. Analyzovanými institucemi jsou Exportní garanční a pojišťovací společnost, Česká exportní banka, Českomoravská záruční a rozvojová...