Interviews, articles

• 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.