The paper deals with yield curve construction methods using coupon bonds in Czech bond market. Generally, there are more possibilities how to approach this problem: bootstraping, splines, parametric functions. Due to the lack of tradable public bonds and due to the fact that existing bonds do...

This study examines the interaction between financial stress and economic activity across emerging markets (EMs). Episodes of financial stress can be broadly defined as periods when the financial system is under acute strain and its ability to intermediate is impaired. This study introduces a...

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 discusses problems of the empirical verification of the relative version of the theory of purchasing power parity based on aggregated price indexes (especially using the consumer price index). The goal of the articles is to compare empirical results obtained from cross-country time...

Long-term memory processes have been extensively examined in recent literature as they provide simple way to test for predictabilty in the underlying process. However, most of the literature interprets the results of estimated Hurst exponent simply by its comparison to its asymptotic limit of...

The article provides a basic description and taxonomy of sovereign wealth funds, rapidly gaining importance in the international monetary and financial systems. SFWs are pools of assets owned and managed directly or indirectly by governments to achieve specific objectives. Tentative estimates of...

The paper presents a dynamic approach to the theory of uncovered interest rate parity. It is examined the dynamic relation between the actual change in spot exchange rate and interest rate differential. Authors show the hypothesis of uncovered interest rate parity is based on an ex ante view and...

Turkish Abstract: Bu çalışmada, onar adet A veB Tipi yatırım fonugruplarının ve Emeklilik (toplam) fonu grubunun günlük ve aylık frekansta performansları ölçülmüştür. Fonların performansını ölçmeye yönelik diğer birçok çalışmadan farklı olarak, bu çalışma fon...

Turkish Abstract: Bu çalışmanın amacı, 2000-2011 döneminde Türkiye'de ve dünyada tezgahüstü türev piyasaların gelişimini incelemektir. Çalışmada tezgahüstü türev piyasalara yönelik eleştiriler de ele alınmıştır. 1970'li yıllardan sonra varlık fiyatlarındaki...

Turkish Abstract: Bu çalışmanın amacı Türkiye'de sermaye piyasasına sunulan kaynaklardan reel sektörün ne derecede faydalandığını incelemektir. Türkiye'de finansal sistem hızlı bir büyüme sürecindedir. Banka dışı finansal kurumların finansal sistemdeki payları...