This article focuses on the development and resolution of Czechoslovak state debt from 1945 to 1953. It describes two distinct periods. Between 1945 and 1948, the budget followed a prewar structure where debt constituted a separate part. These times were characterized by an increase of state...

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...

The article outlines the historical roots of bonds and bond-market institutions in the Czech Republic. The survey begins in early 20th century, during the Habsburg monarchy, carries through the First Republic of Czechoslovakia and the preceding post-Second World War socialist era, and culminates...

Spoločné znaky rozpadu ZSSR, Juhoslávie a česko-slovenskej federácie. Problém českej a slovenskej identity. Spoločný štát Čechov a Slovákov pred 2. svetovou vojnou. Slovenská otázka počas Druhej svetovej vojny. Vývoj po Druhej svetovej vojne.

The article surveys the establishment of a legislative framework providing for banking regulation in Czechoslovakia during 1918?1938. The state intervened in bank sanitation twice during economic recessions in the early 1920s and 1930s. The shocks resulted in the adoption of banking laws to...

The study deals with the question of how much the post-war development of Czechoslovakia was affected by the Nazi central control model and the theory of Marxism-Leninism. The study searches for an answer through analysis of two questions: Could a different economic concept have been applied at...

During First World War German government established 134 "war economic society" for assembling and distribution of food-stuff, consumer products, hard goods and raw materials. Germany so determined of war economy with state central bureaucratic methods. German government proclaimed nine "war...

The study preciously analyses and reconstructs the diffi cult process of the constitution and development of the Institute of the Economic History since its origin (1958) to the time of changes after 1989. It was the fi rst Czech institute of the conomic history; in its head there were Professor...

The main aim of this bibliographical essay is to analyse the major tendencies of the research in the sphere of Czech (Czechoslovak) economic and social history in the 1990s. The bibliography of key studies is divided to fi ve chapters: 1) the surveis, synthesis, general and metodological...

Right after the establishment of Czechoslovakia, it was evident that foreign trade would play an important role in the economy of the new state. The narrow domestic market forced Czechoslovak producers to look for new foreign sales opportunities. With respect to historical ties, they were mainly...