No. 1/2015
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Editorial
Dear readers and researchers,
At the beginning of the New Year, I am pleased to break the latest news
and that is that the journal Financial Assets and Investing has been placed
on the List of non-impact peer-reviewed journals published in the Czech
Republic for the year 2015. We believe that this step will encourage potential
authors to submit of their papers in our journal. Although the journal is
on the list, we still work on improving the quality and keep working on placing
the journal in other scientific databases that can raise the awareness of our
journal.
In the current issue, you can find two reviewed scientific articles that deal
with contemporary issues in the financial world and bring interesting findings.
The first contribution, Modeling the Size of the Mutual Fund Industry
in Countries of Central and Eastern Europe, written by Oleksandra Lemeshko
and Oldřich Rejnuš, re-evaluates the importance of the impact of individual
macro- and microeconomic factors that were identified in previous studies
on the size of asset under management in a sample of high- and middle-income
economies of Central and Eastern Europe by means of regressing the total size
of the mutual fund industry and size of its separate components, such as
equity, fixed income and money market asset management, over a number
of independent variables.
The second article, European Banking Network in Light of the Single
Supervisory Mechanism from the Network Analysis Perspective by Maria
Siranova, discourses on the topological properties of the European banking
network and its evolution over time based on the BIS consolidated banking
statistics data exploiting information from complex network analysis.
I believe you will find the content of the current issue interesting.
Veronika Kajurová