Manipulation of securities' prices

This diploma thesis handles the issue of manipulation of prices of securities and other investment instruments. First part of the thesis is dedicated to legal and theoretical introduction into the topic. First, there comes the legal analysis of manipulation on the communitarian level, which is then followed by regulation in Czech legal order. Legal norms are interpreted within the aim, they are following. In addition, supervisory functions of Czech National Bank and Committee of European Securities Regulators are mentioned as well. As for the practical part, the description of different forms of manipulation is followed by the in-depth analysis of impact of investment recommendations to securities' prices. At the end of the thesis, there are some cases of market manipulation, which happened in the past, analysed within the context of actual legal regulation on the field of capital market protection