This paper strives to enlarge the traditional form of money demand for closed economy with some additional foreign or international determinants. These are, according to presented theory of currency substitution, nominal exchange rate CZK/DEM (or CZK/USD) and yield of foreign assets (3M LIBOR on...

We describe the Czech koruna option market and explore the behaviour of option prices during three eventful periods of the history of the Czech koruna. We point out their forward-looking nature and also show how implied risk neutral distribution might be used for monitoring and interpretation of...

This paper reviews the guidelines of "The New Basle Capital Accord" (NBCA) and four internal models of credit risk assessment. We treat them from the point of view of their underlying concepts, the institutional pre-conditions of their implementation and data requirements. We specially focus on...

This paper analyses empirically the link between central bank financial strength and inflation. The issue has become very topical in recent years as many central banks have accumulated large financial exposures and the risk of losses has risen. We conclude that even though some estimates show a...

This article discusses the experience of countries hit by debt crises as well as the channels of contagion of sovereign default risk to the financial system. It focuses primarily on identifying channels of contagion that might represent a relevant threat to the Czech economy and discusses their...

The Great Recession affected export and import patterns in our sample of new EU member countries, and these changes, coupled with a more volatile external environment, have a profound impact on our estimates of real exchange rate misalignments and projections of sustainable real exchange rates....

The paper analyzes the macroeconomic effects of fiscal policy shocks in the Czech Republic. The low number of observations available for fiscal variables significantly affects the setup of the analysis. Firstly, a small-scale VAR is considered. Secondly, the model is estimated using Bayesian...