Foreign exchange reserves and their influence on performance of Czech National Bank

This bachelor's thesis focuses on foreign exchange reserves, which are closely related to performance of central bank, namely Czech National Bank. Theoretical part sketches out general concept of foreign exchange reserves and how to understand them in a balance sheet. Additionally, it shows their purpose in foreign exchange rate systems which are more detailed described bellow and what influence they have on performance of national bank. Practical part shows a development of foreign exchange reserves of Czech National Bank since 1993. First, due to fixed foreign exchange rate and then since 2013 due to intervention of Czech National Bank, it accumulated a huge amount of foreign exchange reserves in its balance sheet. That was the cause of open foreign exchange position. The thesis analyses the relation between foreign exchange reserves and performance of Czech National Bank, which hugely depends on revaluation differences of foreign exchange reserves. It also focuses on a dilemma, whether it truly is a problem for Czech National Bank to suffer a loss from expected appreciation of Czech Koruna after leaving the intervention obligation