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The EU engagement in the international effort on ODA increasing
Vlková, Ivana ; Konečný, Čestmír (advisor) ; Adamcová, Lenka (referee) ; Varadzin, František (referee) ; Sedláček, Petr (referee)
The purpose of this thesis is to analyse in depth the EU position in the international effort to increase the Official Development Assistance with respect to the situation of poverty in developing world and current initiatives on searching for potential solutions of this crucial issue. In connection with poverty traps in developing countries the EU came up with many important initiatives in the field of international development policy, which indicates a strong commitment of Member states towards the poverty eradication. Based on predictions analysed in the 3rd Chapter of this thesis, it is possible to deduce that the EU as a whole will be able to reach its targets in the area of ODA increases. However, there will be a different situation in case of individual Member states - not all of them report about appropriate ODA increases needed for reaching the individual declared targets. There are many more or less suitable solutions: new allocations of additional financial resources from donors` public budgets to the ODA purposes, debt relief, innovative financial resources or methodological changes in the ODA statistical reporting. In any case, it is always needed to pay attention to the principles of effectiveness and raising the ODA quality and impact. The potential for reaching the official targets was, is and will be affected by plenty of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats on the side of the EU, developing countries and the whole international community.
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Perspective of the EU-Russia economic relations – building common economic space
Sokolov, Ivan ; Cihelková, Eva (advisor) ; Kalínská, Emílie (referee) ; Němcová, Ingeborg (referee) ; Varadzin, František (referee)
The main objective of the doctorate thesis was to explore the causes of the current state of relations between the EU and Russia and to provide substantiation for future effective cooperation. The main analytical assumption of the thesis is that deeper regional economic cooperation creates positive effects for improvement of economic relations. Based on that assumption a complex exploratory framework with solid theoretical grounding was created in order to evaluate potential gains from trade liberalization scenarios between the EU and Russia. Main research is focused on the three following areas: historical background of economic relations, current developments and perspectives of the future cooperation in light of trade liberalization. Historical background of common economic relations stems from political and economic development on both sides, legal and institutional framework and problematic areas. Current development of trade and economic relations is based on analysis of trade flows in goods, trade in services and capital flows. Analysis of the future development is based on three liberalization scenarios: - Accession of Russia to the World Trade Organization (WTO), - Free trade agreement (FTA) -- scrapping customs tariffs between the EU and Russia, - Comprehensive free trade agreement (FTA+) -- reduction of non-tariff barriers to trade, liberalization of trade in services and capital flows, regulatory harmonization. Meta-analysis of different computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling is used to evaluate the liberalization scenarios. Research results proved positive effects of trade liberalization for both sides. However, comprehensive free trade agreement seems to be the most effective form of trade liberalization with maximum economic welfare gains for the EU and the Russian Federation.
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Economic development in Slovakia after the split of Czechoslovakia
Dzinová, Daniela ; Adámková, Vlasta (advisor) ; Tunkrová, Věra (referee)
The work is focused on the economic development of Slovakia after the split of Czechoslovakia in the aftermath of the events after 1989. Economy development of Slovakia was mainly influenced by the process of transition from centrally planned to a market economy, the accession of Slovakia to the EU and the euro area. These factors are described in the first and second part. The third part of the work captures the impact of these processes on the development of basic macroeconomic indicators.
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Voluntary Instruments of the EU Environmental Policy
Chmelová, Barbora ; Němcová, Ingeborg (advisor) ; Remtová, Květa (referee)
This thesis analyses the voluntary instruments in relationship to EU. The goal of this work is to find out, if the voluntary instruments represent a proper mean to protect the environment and how does the European Union stands in their support. At the beginning the thesis introduces the base of environmental policy at the bussiness level and then the EU environmental policy. Next there is described a model of optimal influance of the polluter to the environment. Last two chapters are about the voluntary instruments themselves. After their short introduction the thesis analyses their economical features and how can they be expressed in the model. Then the work answers the question, how does the European Union stands in their support and introduces two unique EU instruments -- EMAS and ekolabel EU.
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Value Added Tax on services within the EU.
Svobodová, Veronika ; Marková, Hana (advisor) ; Kohajda, Michael (referee)
Cílem této diplomové práce je poskytnout ucelený pohled na daň z přidané hodnoty ("DPH") při poskytování služeb v rámci EU. Celá práce je rozdělena do 5 kapitol. První kapitola je věnována historii DPH, jejímu postavení v daňové soustavě a zhodnocení výhod a nevýhod zavedení DPH. Následující kapitoly jsou zaměřeny na harmonizační vývoj DPH v rámci EU a vymezují jednotlivé konstrukční prvky DPH dle českého Zákona č. 235/2004 Sb., o dani z přidané hodnoty. Klíčová 4. Kapitola je věnována úpravě poskytování služeb v rámci EU jak z pohledu českého zákona o DPH, tak s pohledu evropských směrnic a judikátů Evropského soudního dvora. V závěru práce jsou diskutovány dopady chystané novely českého zákona o DPH na oblast služeb poskytovaných v rámci EU.
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Integration of European Financial Market
Chaloupka, Jiří ; Sedláček, Jiří (advisor) ; Bureš, Jan (referee)
This theses analyses a proces of the european financial integration. First part summarises opinions on financial integration among contemporary economists. The following part describes a proces of harmonisation of financial law in EU. Another two chapters briefly analyse consolidation of market structure and supervision. Last part measures the level and speed of financial integration.
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Public-private partnerships and their praxis in EU member states
Sisková, Monika ; Němcová, Ingeborg (advisor) ; Němec, Tomáš (referee)
The aim of this final thesis is to analyse and compare the PPP practices of EU member states and to evaluate the current situation of their PPP markets as well as the issues faced at present. The study consists of four chapters. The first chapter deals with the theoretical and legal concept of public-private partnerships: the definition of PPPs, their characteristics, advantages and disadvantages of PPPs and the factors influencing the success of PPP projects. The section thereafter analyses the position and role of the EU, EIB and EBRD in promoting and supporting the implementation of PPP projects. The section is followed by an assessment of the PPP market development trend, high lightening the basic quantitative differences between the EU member states. Chapter four forms the core of this thesis in which, based on specified criteria (legal and institutional PPP conditions, average value of a project, corruption, transparency and the nature of the public sector) the PPP praxis of Great Britain, Italy, Greece, Sweden, Poland and Slovakia are analysed and compared. The states are characterized by national PPP markets of diverse quality as well as significant differences in the national conditions for implementing PPP projects.
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Impacts of global financial crisis on the economies of USA, EU and Japan
Slosarčíková, Jana ; Stuchlíková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Antal, Jarolím (referee)
United States, European Union and Japan are the most important centers of the world economy. Each of them took a different path of economic development, each has different strengths and weaknesses and faces a number of specific problems. These problems are multiplied especially in times of an economic crisis and subsequent recession. This work, divided into four chapters, aims to theoretically and practically analyze the main causes and stages of the financial crisis, with emphasis on its development in three major economies. The first chapter, which deals with the theory of financial crises, is followed by the second one, where theoretical knowledge is applied to the development and course of the global financial crisis and provides an overview of specific short-term measures that the economies had to take in order to fight it. The third chapter analyzes the impact of the crisis on the basic macroeconomic indicators of the analyzed centers and the fourth one summarizes lessons that the economist and state representatives should learn from this experience.
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Impacts of global financial crisis on the Czech republic and selected EU countries
Vlčková, Marie ; Abrhám, Josef (advisor) ; Pluskalová, Eva (referee)
In this thesis I discuss the financial crisis affecting the whole world. The thesis is concerning the most advanced economic center like United States, European Union, Japan and China. A special attention belongs to the particular states of the European Union (Germany, Lithuania, Greece, Slovak Republic and of course Czech Republic). I tried to compare all the European Union by two macroeconomic variables, the first one is gross domestic product and the second one gross domestic product per capita measured by purchasing power parity. The conclusion is that the original membership's countries were far less affected by the crisis than countries that acceded in 2004 and 2007. In the case of gross domestic product the most negative impact had the crisis on Ireland, Finland and Luxembourg and at least were affected France, Portugal and Belgium. For new member states are most negative influenced the Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Slovakia and the least affected countries were Poland, Malta and Cyprus. The second variable shows us that the crisis was in case of new members most favorable for Cyprus, Malta, Slovenia and the Czech Republic and vice versa worst for Bulgaria and Romania. In global the crisis hit at most Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and had the smallest impact on Greece, Cyprus, Netherlands and France. For individual countries from the European Union I tried to analyze the applications of government measures and personally, I inclined to think that the crisis is the curative process on one hand because crises lead to the cleaning the market from less productive and prosperous companies and creating space for new opportunities but on the other hand bring a lot of negative aspects, such as unemployment, decline in living standards and more.
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