In December 2009 the media group Disney completed the takeover of Marvel Entertainment, which belongs to the largest comic book publishers in the world. The transaction significantly changed the two companies, as well as the movie industry. Disney greatly expanded its child target group, which...

Global corporations and companies with international portfolios increasingly concentrate their activities not only on the international expansion of their products or services and global diversifi cation of their capital portfolios, but also on an effective integration in the global value chain...

Ekonomická kriminalita nadobúda v podmienkach globalizácie nové rozmery. Dochádza k prepájaniu organizovaných skupín, ktoré pôsobia destabilizujúco na ekonomiku jednotlivých krajín. Veľmi často dochádza k zneužívaniu bankových nástrojov a nových bankových technológií na...

We present results of an analysis and comparison of 46 studies (54 economic surveys) on capital budgeting methods for investment projects evaluation with emphasis on trends in application from 70s till present. We focus on three methods: net present value method, internal rate of return and...

This paper aims to estimate efficiency of the Slovak commercial banks in the period 2001-2005. The paper uses data obtained from annual reports of 13 Slovak banking institutions. For the practical estimation we applied the parametric Stochastic Frontier Approach and Cobb-Douglas production...

The 2008 financial crisis has its origins in the US real estate market. By means of purchases of US mortgage-backed securities it spread to the portfolios of financial companies everywhere in the world and it is making its way to the real economy. The measures to be taken include cutting...

In this paper historical performance of eleven approaches for estimation of one-day 95% value-at-risk is evaluated. Random sample of 1000 foreign exchange portfolios consisting of positions in EUR and USD with CZK as a base currency was considered. Since foreign exchange portfolio consists of...

The paper presents empirical analysis of influence of different ownership forms on efficiency of Czech and Slovak banks using the Stochastic Frontier Analysis. The paper brings new results as it uses set of data which has not been used previously in the literature. On the set of 44 Czech and 21...

Svetová finančná kríza, ktorá postupne prerástla do globálnej ekonomickej krízy vo veľkej miere ovplyvnila aj svetový obchod a obchodné financovanie. Obchodné financovanie je pre medzinárodný obchod nevyhnutnosťou, a preto ICC (International Chamber of Commerce) na podnet WTO...

Príspevok sa zaoberá procesom otvárania sa Slovenska svetu z pohľadu sektoru bankovníctva. Poukazuje na špecifiká bankovníctva v ČSSR, ČSFR a na reformy po rozpade Federácie.