The relatively long term period of stability before the present crises called even "Great Moderation" or "Golden Age of Central Banking" indicated that the infl ation targeting was a success story. As of 2008 a lot has changed and the debate over "Leaning against the wind or Clean afterwards?"...

The paper deals with the impact of new information on the fixed income market. We expect this to be the first study covering such a topic in Central European markets. We prepared a model of a market reaction and found out that the market is not significantly driven by new macroeconomic figures....

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...

When improving a process quality using Six Sigma methodology, sigma metric as a measure of quality is introduced. The metric is computed using a special table which converts defects per million opportunities (dpmo) to sigma level. The article shows that when sigma quality of a process is under...