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The history of the European monetary unions
Přílepková, Hana ; Půlpán, Karel (advisor) ; Pazderník, Roman (referee)
This thesis depicts monetary integration of the European states from the second half of the nineteenth century to the period after the First World War, which was taking place against the background of the then metallic monetary systems. The aim is to provide a comprehensive view of the historical developement of integrating tendencies and to reveal the reasons of its successes and failures. The first part provides a brief theoretical introduction, the stress is putted especially on the theory of optimal currency areas. The remaining parts deal with monetary unions of the surveyed period. Firstly we look at the ways in which national and multinational monetary unions of the nineteenth century were realized. The spontaneous adoption of the gold standard by the majority of countries in the 1870s created world monetary union based on a system of fixed exchange rates. Finally we focuse on the Austro-Hungarian monetary union. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Philosophy of Science and its Moments in Comparison of Schools of Economic Thought
Kovanda, Lukáš ; Sojka, Milan (advisor) ; Půlpán, Karel (referee)
The main aim of this work is to examine compound relationships between economics and philosophy of science. We seek to sketch out crucial tendencies in this sphere which took place especially during 20th century, e.g. modernism/postmodernism and positivism/postpositivism etc., and, then, to outline four potential possibilities of the future image of economics. Accordingly, this work is divided into two plans which pervade each other. In the context of the first plan's comparison of neo-classical and post-Keynesian, in Larry Laudan's term, research traditions in economics, we conclude, that, to the more or less extent, there is an influence of the philosophy of science on economics. Thus, we also argue that every economist, who advocates any particular theory or model, should be familiar, at least to the certain degree, with the specific world view which is always, under any research tradition, implicitly or explicitly, underlying them. In the second plan of this work, we introduce, as we have said, four "scenarios of the future development in the field of economics". To the more or less extent arbitrarily, though arguably, we have chosen few well distinguished economists and other scientists, like Sheila C. Dow, Arjo Klamer, David Colander, D. Wade Hands, Bruce J. Caldwell, and Fritjof Capra, to...
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Privatization of banks in Slovakia and its impact on bank market
Soták, Branislav ; Půlpán, Karel (advisor) ; Slavíček, Ján (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the transition and privatization of banks in Slovak Republic. In the beginning, it describes the theoretical background of financial transition. It then copes with the emergence of two-tiered banking and privatization and its implications for the uprise of a Slovak specific corporate governance model, in which banks played a crucial role. The third part investigates problems of the development of the banking sector until late 90s, mostly the vast non-performing loan portfolio. These problems eventually led to a banking crises, that was necessary to be solved via costly restructuring and privatization of banks with the entry of strategic foreign investors, the fourth part describes the process. The last part is dedicated to an empirical analysis of the impact of various ownership forms on the cost efficiency of banks in the sample of Czech and Slovak banks in the period 1996-2005. To estimate the efficiency we use the stochastic frontier approach with the translog specification of the cost function. The results support the hypothesis that privatized banks are more cost efficient than stateowned banks.
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The Life and Work of Imrich Karvaš
Lipták, Štefan ; Půlpán, Karel (advisor) ; NÁHRADNÍ, OPONENT (referee)
The topic of this bachelor thesis is the life and work of the most remarkable Slovak economist Imrich Karvaš. The basic intention is to remind and to introduce his activities and contribution to the Slovak economy during the first half of his life and also to point out his unfavourable destiny during the second one. The first part specialises in both professional and personal parts of his life. The second part parses his publication The French inflation and findings for the monetary theory resulting from it. His attitudes and observations from the French inflation are summarised in detail there. The third part deals with his purely theoretical work The issue of time in the economic theory. The final part of the thesis describes the most interesting period of his life. The attention is focused on his work in the office as the governor of the Slovak national bank during the Second World War.
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