- Vladimír Tomšík: I agree with the interest rate path implied by the current forecast
Answers to questions from Reuters
- Squaring the circle of financial intermediation (pdf, 109 kB)
Mojmír Hampl (Global Financial Strategy July 2010, p. 11)
- Czech Banker Backs Off Euro
Interview of the CNB Governor Miroslav Singer
By Gordon Fairclough and Leos Rousek (The Wall Street Journal Europe 9.7.2010, p. 6)
- Czech Central Banker Sees Rates Staying Low
Governor Miroslav Singer speaks to Dow Jones Newswires in an interview
By Leos Rousek (Dow Jones Newswires 8.7.2010)
- Czech cbank chief sees rates flat longer than thought
Governor Miroslav Singer speaks to Reuters in an interview
By Jana Mlcochova and Michael Winfrey (Reuters 8.7.2010)
- Czech Central Banker Sees Rates at Record Low for ‘a While’
Governor Miroslav Singer speaks to Bloomberg in an interview
By Alan Crosby and Douglas Lytle (Bloomberg 8.7.2010)
- Bank tax increases moral hazard (pdf, 5,5 MB)
CNB Vice-Governor Mojmir Hampl for Banka Magazine
Banka Magazine (Croatian magazine), 1.7.2010 (Croatian version: Bankarski porez povećava moralni hazard, pdf, 606 kB)
- Czech Policy Maker Says Rates May Go Up Early If Revival Holds
Interview of Eva Zamrazilová, CNB Chief Executive Director and Bank Board member
By Peter Laca (Bloomberg 14.6.2010)
- Czech c.banker: no change in policy for now
Interview of the CNB Vice-Governor Miroslav Singer
By Jana Mlcochova and Michael Winfrey, Reuters (2.6.2010)
- The Czech financial sector remains stable even at a time of recession
Robert Holman (Ekonom 20.5.2010, Top finance - introduction)
- Czech Republic is still far away from the Switzerland
Interview of the CNB Governor Zdeněk Tůma
By Ecaterina Locoman (Radio Free Europe, 14.5.2010)
- Czechy: gospodarka jest wazniejsza niz euro (pdf, 802 kB, in Polish)
Interview of the CNB Vice-Governor Mojmir Hamp
WPROST 19/2010
- Czech central banker says crown strong, room to cut rates
Interview of the CNB Chief Executive Director V. Tomšík
By Jana Mlčochová (Reuters, 22.4.2010)
- Czech Central Banker Singer Sees Room for Lower Rates
Interview of the CNB Vice-Governor Miroslav Singer
By Peter Laca (Bloomberg, 13.4.2010)
- The EU is making a big mistake on banking supervision
CNB Vice-Governor Mojmir Hampl for Europe's World
(Europe's World, 1.3.2010)
- Wer mit Tricksereien beitreten will, wird bestraft
CNB Vice-Governor Miroslav Singer for ARD-studio Prague
By Christina Janssen (ARD-Studio Prag, 25.2.2010)
- Wie die Politiker die Märkte belehren
Mojmir Hampl
Commentary for Die Presse, 10.2.2010 (in German)
- Czech Central Bank May Delay Rate Rises, Tomsik Says
Interview of Vladimír Tomšík, CNB Chief Executive Director and Bank Board member
By Peter Laca (Bloomberg, 26.1.2010)
- Interview with CNB vice-Governor M. Singer at the Euromoney conference
(Video, link to the Thomson Reuters website, 20.1.2010)
- Euro Hopes Slim With Any New Govt
By Sean Carney (Dow Jones Newswires, Vienna, 20.1.2010)
- Czech Central Banker Singer: Sees 2010 GDP +2% On Year
By Sean Carney (Dow Jones Newswires, Vienna, 20.1.2010)
- Czech central banker sees first rate hike in Q2 or Q3
Interview of Robert Holman , CNB Chief Executive Director and Bank Board member
by Jana Mlcochova (Reuters 20.1.2010)
- Czech Central Banker Singer Sees Rates Unchanged in ‘Near Term’
Interview of the CNB Vice-Governor Miroslav Singer
By Peter Laca (Bloomberg, 8.1.2010)
- Politicians and the Financial Crisis
By Mojmír Hampl
(Wall Street Journal, 15.12.2009, s. 14)
- CPI, GDP key to Czech rate decision
Interview of Eva Zamrazilová, CNB Chief Executive Director and Bank Board member
By Sandor Peto (Reuters, 8.12.2009)
- Interview: Zdenek Tuma, central bank governor
Interview of the CNB Governor Zdeněk Tůma
By Jan Cienski (ft.com 8.12.2009)
- Czech central banker Řežábek hints stable rates better option
Interview of Pavel Řežábek, CNB Chief Executive Director and Bank Board member
By Leos Rousek (Dow Jones Newswires, 7.12.2009)
- Czech rates could change either way - cbanker
Interview of the CNB Vice-Governor Mojmír Hampl
By Jana Mlcochova (Reuters, 18.11.2009)
- Czechs Don't Need Lower Rates Now, Zamrazilova Says
Interview of Eva Zamrazilová, CNB Chief Executive Director and Bank Board member
By Peter Laca (Bloomberg, 16.11.2009)
- Czech National Bank Vice-Governor Miroslav Singer responds to a blog article published in the online version of The Financial Times
(ft.com/brusselsblog, 15.11.2009)
- Czech c.banker sticks to guns on stable rates
Interview of Robert Holman, CNB Chief Executive Director and Bank Board member
By Jana Mlcochova (Reuters, 26.10.2009)
- Resolving nonperforming assets in the Czech Republic: Theory and practice (link to the CESifo DICE Report website)
Jan Cimburek, Miroslav Kollár, Luboš Komárek and Pavel Řežábek
CESifo DICE Report - Quarterly Journal for Institutional Comparisons 3/2009
- Czech Central Bank Should Loosen Policy, Singer Says
Interview of the CNB Vice-Governor Miroslav Singer
By Andrea Dudikova and Peter Laca (Bloomberg, 20.10.2009)
- An exaggeration of CEE's woes
Miroslav Singer (Financial Times 6.10.2009)
- Czech Ctrl Bk Head: See No Strong Inflationary Risk
Interview of the CNB Governor Zdeněk Tůma
By Joe Parkinson (Dow Jones Newswires, 5.10.2009)
- Governor Tůma for Reuters
Interview of the CNB Governor Zdeněk Tůma
By Toni Vorobyova (Reuters, 5.10.2009)
- Pre-crisis boom won't return: Czech central banker Hampl
Interview of the CNB Vice-Governor Mojmír Hampl
By Jan Lopatka (Reuters, 29.9.2009)
- Czech central banker lashes out at regulation plans
Interview of the CNB Vice-Governor Mojmír Hampl
By Jan Lopatka (Reuters, 29.9.2009)
- Czech Budget Gap May Prompt Higher Rates, Central Banker Says
Interview of Pavel Řežábek, CNB Chief Executive Director and Bank Board member
By Radoslav Tomek and Lenka Ponikelska (Bloomberg, 16.9.2009)
- Advice for Western Europe
Mojmir Hampl (The International Herald Tribune, 11.9.2009 p. 7)
- Czech Republic Shouldn’t Rush to Euro ‘Umbrella’, Hampl Says
Interview of the CNB Vice-Governor Mojmír Hampl
By James M. Gomez and Douglas Lytle (Bloomberg, 28.7.2009)
- Czech c.banker calls for fiscal revamp
Interview of the CNB Vice-Governor Miroslav Singer
By Jana Mlcochova and Robert Mueller (Reuters, 21.7.2009)
- Czech c.bank's Singer sees room to debate cut
Interview of the CNB Vice-Governor Miroslav Singer
By Jana Mlcochova and Robert Mueller (Reuters, 21.7.2009)
- Czech Central Banker Zamrazilova Says Economy Reached Bottom
Interview of Eva Zamrazilová, CNB Chief Executive Director and Bank Board member
By Frances Robinson and Radoslav Tomek (Bloomberg, 3.7.2009)
- Tomsik Sees Room for Czech Central Bank to Cut Interest Rates
Interview of Vladimír Tomšík, CNB Chief Executive Director and Bank Board member
By Andrea Dudikova (Bloomberg, 11.6.2009)
- Zamrazilova: few reasons to lower rates
Interview of Eva Zamrazilová, CNB Chief Executive Director and Bank Board member
Jana Mlčochová (Reuters, 10.6.2009)
- The Czech financial sector successfully copes with crisis thus far
Mojmír Hampl (Ekonom 21.5.2009, Bankovnictví 22.5.2009)
- Czech Central Bank Has Room To Cut Rates Again
CNB bank board member R. Holman for Dow Jones Newswires
By Sean Carney (Dow Jones Newswires, 22.5.2009)
- Tschechische Nationalbank warnt vor Geldschwemme (in German language, pdf, 3 MB)
Interview of the CNB Vice-Governor Miroslav Singer (Der Standard, 22.5.2009, p. 24)
Johanna Ruzicka
- Singer: "Kein Euro in Tschechien vor 2014" (in German language, pdf, 914 kB)
Interview of the CNB Vice-Governor Miroslav Singer (Wirtschafts Blatt, 22.5.2009, p. 11)
Aureliusz M. Pedziwol, Sissi Eigruber
- Governor Zdenek Tuma speaks in an interview with the Central Banking Journal (pdf, 316 kB)
Interview of the CNB Governor Zdeněk Tůma (conducted in February 2009)
By Martina Horáková (Central Banking Journal, published 20.5.2009)
- CNB's Hampl welcomes stabilisation of koruna volatility
Interview of the CNB Vice-Governor Mojmír Hampl
(Reuters, 20.5.2009)
- Czech cbank gov Tuma says Q1 growth "not so bad"
Interview of the CNB Governor Zdeněk Tůma
By Michael Winfrey (Reuters, 15.5.2009)
- No hangover from forex credit fuelled boom in the Czech Republic
Response to a Wall Street Journal article
Miroslav Singer, Vice-Governor
- Czech bank governor warns economy could shrink by 2%
Interview of the CNB Governor Zdeněk Tůma
By Jan Cienski and Thomas Escritt (ft.com, 23.3.2009)
- The Czech economy
By Miroslav Singer (The Economist, 5.3.2009)
- The passing of illegitimate crowns
Interview of Pavel Řežábek, CNB Chief Executive Director and Bank Board member
By Stephan Delbos
The Prague Post, 5 March 2009
- Media inaccurate in portrayal of CEE’s plight
Interview of the CNB Vice-Governor Miroslav Singer
(CentralBankNews.com, 2.3.2009)
- Central and eastern European' label has stopped making sense
By Mojmír Hampl, Vice-Governor, Czech National Bank
ft.com 26.2.2008
- Euro wymaga zgody politycznej
Interview of the CNB Governor Zdeněk Tůma
(Rzeczpospolita, 26.1.2009)
- Financial Strangulation?
2.12.2008 The Wall street journal
By Mojmír Hampl
- Czech Ctrl Bker Zamrazilova:Rate Cut Likely To Be Considered
Interview of Eva Zamrazilová, CNB Chief Executive Director and Bank Board member
(Of Dow Jones Newswires, 28 July 2008)
- Rate Cut Likely To Be Considered (pdf, 111 kB)
Interview of Eva Zamrazilová, CNB Chief Executive Director and Bank Board member
By Sean Carney (Of Dow Jones Newswires, 28 July 2008)
- Strong economy means Czechs will wait to adopt the euro
Interview of the CNB Governor Zdeněk Tůma
By Jan Cienski (ft.com, 3.6.2008)
- Uncertainties do not inevitably mean problems
By Zdeněk Tůma (Top finance page 1, annex Bankovnictví 23.5.2008, Ekonom 22.5.2008)
- Czech c.banker prefers flat rates but sees risks
Interview of Pavel Řežábek, CNB Chief Executive Director and Bank Board member
By Jan Lopatka, (Reuters, 26.2.2008)
- Czech Rate Rise May Be Needed on Wages, Rezabek Says
Interview of Pavel Řežábek, CNB Chief Executive Director and Bank Board member
By Marketa Fiserova, Yon Pulkrabek (Bloomberg, 26.2.2008)
- Reforms needed for eurozone
Interview of the CNB Governor Zdeněk Tůma
By Jan Cienski (The Financial Times, 12.10.2007)
- Czech Cbank's Tuma: Market Turmoil Need Not Derail Mon Policy
By David Barwick (finance.cz 21.8.2007, Zpravodajství ČTK)
- Czech c.banker Niedermayer wants rate hikes
By Luděk Nidermayer for Thomson Financial News (Reuters, 15.8.2007)
- Look Who Needs Austerity Now
By Mojmír Hampl (The Wall Street Journal, 16.7.2007)
- Czech Ctrl Banker: Higher Yields May Dent Koruna
Interview of Pavel Řežábek, CNB Chief Executive Director and Bank Board member
By Sean Carney (Dow Jones Newswire, 14.6.2007)
- Economy 'ready for gear change'
Interview of Mojmír Hampl, CNB Chief Executive Director and Bank Board member
By Bradley Gardner (Czech business weekly, 19.3.2007, page: 12)
- Europe's club of nations needs a rule change
By Zdeněk Tůma, Governor of the Czech National Bank (Financial Times, 4.1.2007, page: 11)
- Czech Central Banker Says CPI Forecast May Ease Rate Increases
Interview of the CNB Board member Jan Frait
By Marketa Fiserova (Bloomberg, 21.7.2004)
- Interview of the CNB Vice-Governor Ludek Niedermayer for the Reuters
By Jan Lopatka (Reuters, 16.4.2002)
- Interview of the CNB Chief Executive Director Pavel Racocha for the Reuters
By Jan Lopatka (Reuters, 15.4.2002)
- Interview of the CNB Vice-Governor Ludek Niedermayer for the Reuters
By Jan Lopatka (Reuters, 9.4.2002)
- Interview of the CNB Chief Executive Director Michaela Erbenova for the Reuters
By Marek Petrus (Reuters, 14.3.2002)
- Interview of the CNB Chief Executive Director Jan Frait for the Reuters
By Marek Petrus (Reuters, 5.3.2002)
- Interview of the CNB Vice-Governor Oldrich Dedek for the Reuters
By Jan Lopatka and Marek Petrus (Reuters, 15.2.2002)
- Interview of the CNB Vice-Governor Ludek Niedermayer for the Reuters
By Jan Lopatka (Reuters, 8.12.2001)
- Czech c. banker says rate hike not needed now
Interview of Jan Frait, the CNB board member for the Reuters
By Jan Lopatka (PRAGUE, Reuters, 21.8.2001)
- Still on course
Interview of the CNB Vice-Governor Zdeněk Tůma for Prague Business Journal (Prague Business Journal, 16.10.2000, Page: 20)
- Interview of the CNB Governor Zdenek Tuma for the Bridge News agendy (pdf, 15 kB)
- Interview of the Jan Frait, member of the CNB Bank Board for the Bridge News agency (pdf, 12 kB)
- Interview of the CNB Vice-Governor Oldrich Dedek for the Bridge News agency (pdf, 66 kB)
- Interview of the CNB Governor Josef Tošovský for the Bridge News agency (pdf, 16kB)
Governor Josef Tošovský answered the questions of the Bridge News agency. The full text of his written answers is in Czech (pdf, 84 kB). The English version provides a Bridge News press release sent to its customers.
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