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Slovenia in the EU
Hovorková, Petra ; Němcová, Ingeborg (advisor) ; Jelínek, Tomáš (referee)
Slovenia gained its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991. Its main goal was to become a member of the European Union, which was achieved in 2004. As the first of the new member countries it adopted the euro as its currency on 1 January 2007 and in the first half of 2008, Slovenia held the Presidency of the EU. The aim of this work is to describe the economic development of Slovenia (both as a part of Yugoslavia and after gaining its independence), specifics of accession negotiations with the EU and conditions of the Treaty of Accession. The work also includes the case study of Slovenian firm Gorenje Group. This company can be given as an example of successful expansion of Slovenian firm in the EU internal market.
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The impact of global financial crisis on automotive industry in Czech and Slovak Republics
Gazdačko, Jan ; Němcová, Ingeborg (advisor) ; Hnát, Pavel (referee)
The essential theme of this thesis is evaluating impacts of financial crisis on automotive industry in the Czech and Slovak republics. The thesis examines the transfer of financial crisis from the USA to Europe and consequently to the Czech and Slovak republics whereas it identifies the role of different factors during the transfer. The thesis subsequently deal with reaction of the governments on the crisis aimed at automotive industry. Fundamental part is devoted to cash for clunker program where the main aim is to answer the question: To introduce or not to introduce cash for clunkers? With regard to recency of this theme and inaccessibility of professional literature the theme is elaborated in the way of study of domestic and foreign Internet resources and analyses from governmental and non-governmental organizations. The outcome of this thesis is evaluation of the status of automotive industry in the Czech and Slovak republics and evaluation of the governmental help to this branch of industry. Main contribution of this thesis is elaboration of a topical theme and the answer to the question concerning cash for clunkers. In conclusion we can mark the help of the Czech government as insufficient.
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The Oil Sands and Economic, Environmental and Political Aspects of their Utilization
Tormová, Lucia ; Němcová, Ingeborg (advisor) ; Horák, Jiří (referee)
The intention of the work is to find, name and explain key factors, which will most likely influence the future of oil sands. The work offers in direct connection with predicted future global energy consumption and with further factors various views on their utilization possibilities. It focuses on evaluation of obstacles within oil sands sector and provides with adequate solutions. The aim of the work is to estimate appropriate conditions for bitumen as well. The first chapter analyzes the current state of world oil resources and verifies the peak oil theory. The second chapter describes oil sands characteristics and their exploitation. The third one focuses on bitumen price, on oil price, which is required by oil sands industry and on extraction costs. The fourth chapter is trying to solve the environmental issues and the fifth one possible political consequences.
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Wider context of the mortgage crisis in the USA
Kapitolová, Petra ; Němcová, Ingeborg (advisor) ; Nováková, Jana (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is a backward connection of the events concerning the mortgage crisis in the USA and explaining the importance of the crisis as a part of the economic cycle. Chapter no. 1 describes the beginning of the crisis in historical and other consequences. It briefly specifies history of the currency system and also history of the USA before the crisis. Also, it specifies the key phenomen of the crisis -- a bubble on the asset market. Afterwards it explains particularly the bubble on the technological market, so called Dot Com Bubble. This increase in the technological stock prices followed by their downfall is directly connected to the mortgage crisis which is described in a following text. The subprime mortgages and their influence on the further events are described. The topic of the following part of this chapter is wrapping up the mortgage backed securities together with other assets and their diffusion all over the world. This is one of the main reasons that caused the transformation of the mortgage crisis into the financial and the economic crisis. The end of the first chapter describes the progress of the crisis in Europe and in the Czech republic. The second chapter tries to answer the question if it was possible to predict the crisis. At first it describes the economic cycles generally and in the USA. The following part deals with the economic indicators which signalized the arrival of the crisis. The last part of the thesis demonstrates some specifics of housing and its importance as a leading indicator.
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Economic aspects of potential changes of Russian natural gas supply routes to the European Union
Holanová, Tereza ; Němcová, Ingeborg (advisor) ; Horák, Jiří (referee)
Natural gas plays a significant role in Europe's energy consumption. Nine EU countries are net importers of gas, six states buy the commodity from a single supplier. Some EU member states experienced how complicated can a shortage of natural gas be in 2006, 2007 and especially in January 2009 when supplies from Russia were interrupted. As a consequence the European Union began to talk about diversification. There are several scenarios how to increase energy security of the EU. My thesis deals with these scenarios in terms of their price, additional cost and probability.
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The European Parliament after the elections in 2009
Křečková, Alena ; Němcová, Ingeborg (advisor) ; Popovová, Marie (referee)
The bachelor thesis describes the position of the European Parliament after the elections in 2009. The thesis compares the elections in 2009 with that one in 2004 in the light of the election campaign, process and results. Separately, it describes the election process to the elections to the European Parliament in the Czech Republic. The bachelor thesis is focused on development of the European Parliament from its beginnings up to the present time, its functions and competences. The thesis analyses the way to the direct elections in full details. It shows the political parties of the European Parliament, which contribute to formation of European awareness.
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EU Energy Policy - Selected Problems of Electricity Market
Zezula, Michal ; Němcová, Ingeborg (advisor) ; Horák, Jiří (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with selected problems of the electricity market in the European Union. Existence of vertically integrated companies limits proper functioning of the single electricity market, therefore the EU supports liberalization process aiming to create competitiveness in electroenergetic area. This would enhance safety and reliability of distribution and consequently it would lead to higher efficiency in electrical production and consumption, lower prices for end-users and sustainable development with respect to environment. One of the main instruments in the liberalization process is proprietary separation of electricity production and distribution, i.e. unbundling. This thesis explains the current performance of the electricity market and evaluates changes that could be reached by liberalization process.
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Euro in Slovakia: forecasts versus reality
Ševčíková, Katarína ; Němcová, Ingeborg (advisor) ; Jelínek, Tomáš (referee)
Since 1. January 2009 Slovakia became the 16th member of the euro area. Different forecasts were made in connection with the adoption of the euro. This work describes whether the forecasted trend of selected macroeconomics indicators has been fulfilled. The introductory parts of this work define the theory of the Economic and monetary union, convergent criterions and entry into the euro area. The chapter No. 4 describes the forecasted trend of the Slovak economy after adoption of the euro. The 5th chapter deals with the position of the euro in Slovakia during the year 2009 and the last chapter analyses whether the forecasts were fulfilled.
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The cross-border cooperation between Czech republic and Poland in the region of Hradec Králové
Kubcová, Karolína ; Němcová, Ingeborg (advisor) ; Tunkrová, Věra (referee)
The goal of my bachelor thesis is to analyze cross-border cooperation between the Czech Republic and Poland. The core of the thesis is the evaluation of SWOT analysis of the eurore-gion Glacensis, which concurs to the whole characteristics of particular euroregions in the area of the Czech Republic, including its history, characteristics of goals, and instruments of cross-border cooperation in general and also the particular institutions which participate in the financing of cross-border cooperation. The analysis of the cross-border cooperation of the Czech Republic and Poland is made by form of SWOT -- analysis of the region Glacensis, in which it will identify the positives, negatives, opportunities, and threats for this euroregion and in recent times, the specific priorities for the future possible development of the range.
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Intercultural management in EU
Štochlová, Martina ; Němcová, Ingeborg (advisor) ; Horák, Jiří (referee)
This work deals with intercultural management in Europian Union, that brings many pro-blems in company's management. Based on self-learning organization concept, this work aims to explain, that an organization can not even succesfully overcome these problems but can even make a comparative advantage from them. Supporting with results from analysis of middle-europian unit of company KONE.
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