B_CBa Central Banking

University of Finance and Administration
Summer 2025
Extent and Intensity
2/2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Ing. Helena Sůvová, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Ing. Helena Sůvová, CSc.
Department of Finance – Departments – University of Finance and Administration
Contact Person: Dita Egertová
Prerequisites
B_Ba Banking
The requirement for the completion of this course is completition of the course B_Ba.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
At the end of this course the student will be able to understand the functions of the Central Bank, its mission and activities. Will be able to explain the role of money indicators, monetary aggregates and the role of central bank as the bank of banks, the issues of banking regulation and supervision and entry into banking sector. Students will be able to clarify the role of central banks such as State Bank, the institutional position of the central bank, central bank management (leadership, organizational structure, powers) will be able to understand monetary policy and the central bank will be able to explain the characteristics of the Czech National Bank, the European Central Bank and the selected central banks (e.g. FED, Bank of England, etc).
Learning outcomes
Students will be able to orientate themselves in the position of a central bank in the Czech Republic and in the world after completing the course. They become aware of the functions of the central bank, the tasks of the Czech National Bank and its management. They will understand the fundamentals of monetary policy within the Czech Republic as well as the EU.
Syllabus
  • 1. : The central bank objectives, functions, tasks 2: Need for an existing central banks in a modern economy   3: Z ~ History of Central Banks 4: The position of the central banks in the State 5: Organisation and management of central banks 6: Central Bank and the regulation of the banking system 7: Economic-policy instruments central banks 8: Monetary policy of central banks 9: The anti-inflation policy of the central bank 10: Supervision of the Central Bank of the banking system 11: Central banks around the world 12: CNB
Literature
    required literature
  • REVENDA, Zbyněk. Centrální bankovnictví. 3., aktualiz. vyd. Praha: Management Press, 2011. ISBN 978-80-7261-230-7.
  • PAVLÁT, Vladislav. Centrální bankovnictví. 3., aktualiz. vyd. Praha: Eupress, 2004. ISBN 80-867-5429-4.
    recommended literature
  • REVENDA, Zbyněk. Peněžní ekonomie a bankovnictví. 5., akt. vyd. Praha: Management Press, 2012. ISBN 978-80-7261-240-6.
  • REJNUŠ, Oldřich. Finanční trhy: učebnice s programem na generování cvičných testů. Praha: Grada, 2016. ISBN 978-80-247-5871-8.
  • KUNERT, Jakub a Jiří NOVOTNÝ. Centrální bankovnictví v českých zemích. 3., aktualiz. vyd. V Praze: Česká národní banka, 2008. ISBN 978-80-87225-06-6.
    not specified
  • SIKLOS, Pierre L., Martin T. BOHL a Mark E. WOHAR, ed. Challenges in central banking: the current institutional environment and forces affecting monetary policy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-521-19929-2.
Teaching methods
Teaching takes the form / lectures / seminars / workshops / full-time study / group consultations and managed in the form of study. Minimum mandatory attendance at seminars / workshops in full-time studies is 75%, the controlled group consultations in combined form 50%. Students who fail to meet the mandatory level of participation may be given during the semester additional study obligations (to the extent that will demonstrate academic achievement and acquired competencies necessary for successful completion of course).
Assessment methods
The course is concluded with an combine exam, exam requirements: sucsessful credits passing which depends on the slide presentation of seminary work on agreed topics and the student´s activity on semminars and lectures.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 12 hodin KS/semestr.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2007, Summer 2008, Winter 2008, Winter 2009, Summer 2010, Winter 2010, Winter 2011, Summer 2013, Summer 2014, Summer 2015, Summer 2016, Summer 2017, Summer 2018, Summer 2019, Summer 2020, Summer 2021, Summer 2022, Summer 2023, Summer 2024.
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