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Institutional framework and development in selected emerging markets
Khamet, Khafiz ; Kouba, Karel (advisor) ; Benáček, Vladimír (referee)
Master thesis analyses the institutional framework in twelve transition economies (Baltic republics, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Slovak Republic as new EU member states, plus Belarus, Russian Federation and Ukraine) on the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) data from 1998 to 2008. The results show good position of new EU member states (except for Bulgaria and Romania) in four indicators, namely Voice and Accountability, Political Stability, Government Effectiveness and Regulatory Quality. In our terminology, it can be viewed as completed second stage of transition. On the other side, all countries have insufficient position in case of Rule of Law and Control of Corruption indicators, or in other words still ongoing third stage of transition. Panel data analysis suggests similar conclusions, moreover the relevance of institutional quality on economic growth become less significant over time, which can be translated as overall quality of institutional framework become sufficiently high for properly working market economy. However, our analysis shows the stagnation of institutional framework in all countries, where over last decade only little improvement was made and business environment in the Czech Republic, Poland, Russian Federation and Ukraine is very rigid mainly...
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The movement of existence according to Jan Patočka
Bělohlávek, Karel ; Chvatík, Ivan (referee) ; Kouba, Pavel (advisor)
The thesis deals with Patočka's account of existence as a movement. Patočka aims at concretization and extension of the account of existence from Heidegger's Sežn und Zežt particulary in respect to two characteristics, which seem to have been neglected by Heidegger: corporal and intersubjective dimensions of existence. The thesis first aims at main Heidegger's inducements, that form basis of Patočka's account, and deals with Patočka/s interpretation of Aristotle's philosophy of nature, in therms of which the sense is to be understood, in that Patočkas existence really is a movement. The thirth part of the work deals with Patočka's radicalisation of the Aristotelian concept of movement. On this basis the thesis reviews Patočka's account of three movements of existence in some of his texts. The last part attempts to clarify the relation between the three movements of existence and the polarity of authenticity and nonauthenticity.
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Course and cause of unemployment after a year 1989
Vopálková, Michaela ; Kouba, Karel (advisor) ; Koubek, Ivo (referee)
This thesis seeks to analyse course an causes of unemployment in transition in Prague area. Subsequently it will be explicite characteristic of the area, concept of transition and its impact on unemployment, legislative changes. On these basis we will try to answer a question, if it is a problem with Prague structure of unemployment, shortage of vacancies, or unwillingness of unemployed people to work. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Public procurements : institutional analysis of the competitive proceeding in government procurements
Soudek, Jan ; Vacek, Pavel (referee) ; Kouba, Karel (advisor)
This thesis focuses on institute of the public procurement from the economic point of view. Especially it is trying to analyze institutional factors affecting process of public competition. First part defines economic term "public procurement" and shows, how important is this institution for the economy. Than describes the Public procurement law and others formal rules. Second part is focused on economical aspects of public procurements, namely on transaction costs, economic model of submitter, competition mechanism and determinants of its effectiveness. End of theoretical part is trying to implement the theoretical framework of the rent-seeking on public procurements. Last Chapter is empirical analyze of the randomly chosen set of 278 public procurements in civil engineering works, which were realized in Czech Republic since 2005 till 2007. Mainly it tries to approve the hypothesis about effect of explicit competition on the final price (as a percentage of the approval price) and shows the positive effect of use the most transparent proceeding on this price-ratio.
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Four Essays in political economy
Roháč, Dalibor ; Kouba, Karel (advisor) ; Mlčoch, Lubomír (referee)
This thesis is a collection of four papers approaching different issues of political economy from the perspective of the Virginia school. The first paper is an analysis of the liberum veto, the unanimity voting rule used in Polish-Lithuanian Republic. It claims that unanimity was an answer to the religious heterogeneity of the Republic and to the fact that rights of the minorities were not protected by credible constitutional provisions. The second paper discusses the failure to democratise and the demise of the Austro- Hungarian Empire. Contrary to the popular wisdom which emphasises the military defeat of the Empire, it argues that the nationality question played an important role in its fall. The failure of the monarchy to decentralise was the main reason which induced ethnic minorities to seek remedies which brought about the collapse of the dual monarchy. The third paper seeks parallels between the political thought of Frank Knight and Jürgen Habermas. We argue that in several important respects, Habermas behaved as a Knightian and can be considered as being very close to the Knight-Buchanan-Rawls line in normative political economy. The fourth paper is a discussion of transparency in modern economics. The central argument of the paper is that the incentive structure of economics can induce...
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Arendt's conception of action in The human condition
Skalník, Michal ; Novotný, Karel (referee) ; Kouba, Pavel (advisor)
In my work l have tried to solve one question: What kind of conception of action is offered to us by Hannah Arendt in her well known work The Human Condition? At first l have tried to find way how to read the text, therefore l made an analysis of what condition, vita activa and other essential concepts mean. The care of my work consist in uncovering the picture of action how is showed and hidden in chapter dedicated to it. l try to uncover the meaning of action adding concept by concept to it and relating to each other. After all l take a brief look at other essay where Arendt copes with action and compare her new solutions with ones found in The Human Condtion.
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The Korean investor in the Czech enterprise : (the case study of Daewoo Avia, a.s.)
Kábrtová, Jana ; Kouba, Karel (advisor) ; Hrubý, Zdeněk (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the study of the Korean investor Daewoo in the Czech company Avia. The aim of this thesis is to illustrate on the example of Daewoo Avia, a.s. the impact of cut and dry application of Korean system of corporate governance on Czech conditions. In the detailed analysis there is a focus on the development of the company, Korean principles of corporate governance, difficulties of Korean supervision and company success, that is evaluated in accordance to economical indexes, including production and the number of employees. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Diet structure of Tengmalm’s owl (Aegolius funereus) in the Ore Moutains in 2014-2015: the effect of laying date on the presence of Microtus voles and birds (Aves)
Šimková, Kristýna ; Šťastný, Karel (advisor) ; Kouba, Marek (referee)
Diet structure of Tengmalm s Owl was studied during 2014-2015 in the Loučeň area of the Ore Mountains specifically around the Flájská dam area of 70 km2. This area is strongly affected by emissions. Diet research was conducted with method of pellets analysis which were taken from nest boxes during nesting period. 32 samples were collected during this two years study. Each sample represents content of diet from one nest box during one
nesting period. 6 samples with 259 individuals were from 2014 while 26 samples with 1349 individuals were collected in 2015. In total 1608 individuals were found during 2014-2015, out of them 33 birds (Aves) and 1575 mammals (Mammalia). Diet content was changing during study years, depending on availability of prey. Main part of diet represented mammals (97,9 %), rest of diet was built by birds (2,1 %). Between 2014-2015 mammals were found in following proportion: Apodemus sp. - 52,8 %, Microtus agrestis - 25,1 %, Microtus sp. - 8,0 %, Sorex araneus - 3,0 %, Clethrionomys glareolus - 2,7 %, Microtus arvalis - 2,0 %, Muscardinus avellanarius - 0,6 %, Sorex minutus - 0,5 %, Micromys minutus - 0,1 % and birds in proportion: Turdus philomelos - 0,4 %, Phylloscopus sp. - 0,4 %, Aegolius funereus - 0,2 %, Erithacus rubecula - 0,2 %, Pyrrhula pyrrhula - 0,2 %, Fringilla coelebs - 0,1
%, Parus major - 0,1 %, Anthus trivialis - 0,1 %, Carduelis cannabina - 0,1 %, Ficedula sp. - 0,1 %, Garrulus landarius - 0,1 %, Regulus regulus - 0,1 %, Sylvia atricapilla - 0,1 %, Turdus merula - 0,1 %. Main objective of this study was to evaluate proportion of voles and birds in diet during study reflecting timing of Tengmalm s Owl s nesting. During two years evaluation was proved difference in proportion of birds in diet of Tengmalm s Owl. In 2014 birds represented 15,3% of diet while in 2015 birds were not represented at all. Proportion of voles (Microtus agrestis, Microtus arvalis and Microtus sp.) in Tengmalm s Owl s diet didn t differ significantly during study period.
It was found that in 2014 neither proportion of voles nor birds in Tengmalm s Owl s diet didn t change significantly during nesting period thus the effect of nesting timing on diet content wasn t proved. During 2015 nesting period the proportions of voles in Tengmalm s Owl s diet significantly grew and impact of nesting timing was proved. Birds were not represented in owl s diet at all in this year.
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Species diversity and abundance of small terrestrial mammals in several types of forest stands in Třeboňsko study area
Dvořák, Jiří ; Kouba, Marek (advisor) ; Šťastný, Karel (referee)
The goal of this thesis was to find the diversity and abundance of small mammals in several types of forest and non-forest ecosystems in the protected landscape area of CHKO Třeboňsko. Further, the goal was to compare the collected data with analogical data from Krušné hory and finally discuss the findings in relation to the abundance of the Tengmalm´s Owl (Aegolius funereus) in both areas.
Trapping by collapsible snap-traps was practiced in both of the abovementioned protected landscape areas. In case of Třeboňsko, six spring and six fall quadrants were established, while the area of one quadrant was designated to 270 m2with 40 traps laid. In contrast, the small mammals in Krušné hory were being caught on three spring and three fall quadrants. The area of one quadrant was designated to be 1 ha with each quadrant containing 121 laid traps. The result numbers of caught individuals were converted into the number of trapped individuals per 100 trap nights. The number of nesting pairs of Tengmalm´s Owl was established by regular visits of hanging nestboxes in both of the protected landscape areas.
In 2014, 42 individuals were caught in Třeboňsko. The following species were recorded: yellow-neck mouse (Apodemus flavicollis), bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus), and common vole (Microtus arvalis). For this year, the highest diversity of species was recorded in localities "pine north" and "open area south". The highest number of individuals caught (21) was in the quadrant of "pine north".
The year 2015 was more colorful in case of recorded species, however the total number of caught individuals was only insignificantly higher (49 individuals in total). The following species were caught: yellow-neck mouse, wood mouse, bank vole, common shrew (Sorex araneus), and field vole (Microtus agrestis). The highest species diversity was recorded in the quadrant of "spruces north" and the highest number of caught pieces (24) was recorded in the quadrant of "pine north".
In case of Krušné hory, there were 31 caught individuals in 2014 and 193 individuals in 2015. The species diversity of small mammals was equivalent as in the experimental localities in Třeboňsko, additionally, only the eurasian pygmy shrew (Sorex minutus) was recorded.
The following numbers of nesting pairs of Tengmalm´s Owl were recorded through the regular visits of nesting boxes: in the year 2014, there was not a single nesting pair in the area of Třeboňsko; in the year 2015, there were 3 nesting pair. In Krušné hory, for the year 2014, there were 10 nesting pair recorded, and for the year 2015, 34 pair were recorded.
Even though the food supply was similar, there was a significant difference in the numbers of nesting couples in Třeboňsko and Krušné hory. It seems probably, that the Tengmalm´s Owl simply prefers natural nesting cavities over the hanging booths in Třeboňsko.
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