Lessons and Impressions of the Czech Capital Markets
Abstract:
As part of the Network Science Centers Frontier Markets research project which is developing methodologies to classify Capital Market networks, a research team consisting of two researchers and three cadets from the Network Science Center visited the Czech Republic from 12-19 March, 2011. The purpose of the trip was to conduct research on the capital market network in Prague, validate the initial network results, and identify individuals, organizations and roles that should be incorporated into subsequent network typologies. The team has developed network models of three Frontier Markets Tanzania, Ghana, and Trinidad and Tobago. One of the goals is to construct a quantitative vertical comparison between our Frontier Markets and an Emerging Market. We selected the Czech Republic as the Emerging Market because they liberalized their markets and privatized many government-owned industries at approximately the same time as Tanzania and Ghana.