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The Impact of Institutional Capital of Research Institutions on Patent Activity- example of the Czech Republic
Linka, Milan ; Bartoň, Petr (advisor) ; Koubek, Ivo (referee)
The thesis examines impact of the institutional capital, which captures the ability to produce quality patents, on the number of applied patent applications after the adoption of new governmental system of research and development evaluation. For determination of the institutional capital I use similar approach as Turnovec (2005) in case of publications. The estimation of the institutional capital is based on the evaluation of patents received by publicly financed research institutions. The evaluation of patents is based on the analysis of patent family and patent citation data. The data are analyzed using methods of multi-criteria decision making. Further it is estimated that the institutional capital does not influence the number of applied patent applications.
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Poker as a riskless investment?
Radu, Valentin ; Bartoň, Petr (advisor) ; Houdek, Petr (referee)
Poker is considered to be a form of gambling in which luck influences the course and result of the game. However, from a scientific point of view, the element of luck can be proven irrelevant in the long run, if the players use exact sciences in their process of decision making. This Bachelor's thesis analyzes this game and it's importance in history as a consumer good, offering the consumers a certain degree of satisfaction for their demand. It also presents the connection and influences between poker and game theory explaining it's importance in decision making in this game. The body of this thesis explains the application of mathematics and probability in poker and how a player can use them together with statistics to make himself profitable in the long run. Important mathematics based poker theories issued by multiple world champions and their use in the decision of the players are also explained along with how their use can advert the factor of luck and offer a high degree of certainty to the subjects involved in the uncertain game. Finally the thesis researches the economics of poker from the players point of view, but also the giant corporations of this, multinational billion dollar industry, which bring this good to the market for individuals.
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Local currency: Alternative for poor and green regions?
Kaisner, Jakub ; Bartoň, Petr (advisor) ; Šustrová, Denisa (referee)
Do local currency initiatives rise in poorer regions with preference of green politics? That's one of the questions, that paper focused on regional currencies in Germany tried to answer. Analysis was performed on the sample of 29 districts, where the local currency project has been attempted. Research revealed the uneven concentration of projects in the country in favor of the wealthier areas with lower unemployment rates, a result opposite to that of similar research in the U.S. The assumption of higher preference of green politics in these districts was strongly proved. After comparison of active projects, and stopped, it became clear that projects in large cities are significantly less likely to succeed.
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The Intergenerational Mobility in Czech Republic
Krejčí, Lucie ; Bartoň, Petr (advisor) ; Kuře, Miroslav (referee)
This paper deals with the intergenerational income mobility, its determinants and scope. The data sample concerning fathers and their sons in the Czech Republic and is collected by a questionnaire method. Results are estimated using simple linear regression with socioeconomic indices as a proxy variable and using transition matrix. The resulting mobility is not too large, which means that the opportunities in the Czech Republic are not equal. As important exogenous variables turned out to be years of schooling of both father and son and higher education attainment of both.
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Vede (příjmová) nerovnost k většímu násilí ve společnosti?
Mlčoch, Tomáš ; Houdek, Petr (advisor) ; Bartoň, Petr (referee)
The article investigates the impact of inequality on violence in society using the data from the EU for the years from 2005 to 2008. The results show a positive and significant impact (in 2005) of inequality on violent crime while increase by one point in the Gini index means an increase in violent crime by 6,1%. Moreover, I find the relationship with the GDP growth and prison population significant, and negative correlation with GNI PPP per capita and the number of police officers. Above all, the Power Distance Index (measuring perceived inequality and centralisation of power) has a very significant and positive effect on violent crime, an increase in 1 point means an increase in violent crime by 1,8%. The factor of residential segregation is also discussed as a limit or a bias during the investigation of the effect of inequality and violence using the data from a smaller territorial unit than the state-level.
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Natorp's System of the Syntetic Function of Reason and Theory of Number
Janda, Pavel ; Pavlík, Ján (advisor) ; Bartoň, Petr (referee)
Presented paper is concerned with Paul Natorp's system of the synthetic function of the reason and its influence on the theory of number. I will try to show that present system of the number theory suffers from some significant drawbacks and Natorp's theory may be able to amend them. Natorp elaborates his theory on the basis of Kantian categorical system and Kant's transcendental philosophy. In my paper, I would like to achieve two goals. Firstly, I would like to support Natorp's statement that we need to be concerned with the logical system of our concept's originating. Secondly, I will try to defend Natorp's theory against accusations of psychologism.
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What are the costs and benefits of daylight saving time?
Kožušková, Kateřina ; Bartoň, Petr (advisor) ; Schwarz, Jiří (referee)
Daylight saving time (DST) was implemented with purpose to maximize use of daylight and thereby reduce electricity consumption used for lighting. This policy would primarily affect energetics, however its influence was shown in many other areas. The thesis contains general assumptions of daylight saving time impact on electricity consumption and the main goal of the thesis is to identify with the natural experiment whether the extension of daylight saving time till the end of October occuring in Czech republic in 1996, led to savings of electricity consumption. Observed period is September and October between years 1993 and 1998. First, the difference in consumption between days with DST and without DST is investigated. On days with DST the consumption was lower than on days without DST. The two other regression analysis are devoted to the effect of the introduction of DST in October. First, the analysis included both observed months, the effect of extending daylight saving time however was not demonstrated. Further, October as itself is analyzed. October consumption was reduced by approximately 2,4 % in three years after the introducion of DST, compared with three previous years, when DST was not implement in this month.
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Is Super-gross Wage Really Super-gross, World Nonstandard Mistake?
Braunová, Veronika ; Bartoň, Petr (advisor) ; Brožová, Dagmar (referee)
Super-gross wage is a gross wage increased by social insurance contributions paid by the employer. Since its introduction in the Czech Republic its non-standard has been discussed. The theoretical part alerts that the logic of super-gross wage is indisputable because it reveals the total wage costs of the employer per employee, leads to higher transparency between the employee and the state and finally social insurance contribution is a benefit paid by the employer to employee which increase his welfare so it should enter the tax base. A gross wage widespread with any benefit or allowance paid by the employer is for the purposes of this thesis entitled as a "super-gross wage". Analysis of the personal income tax shows that super-gross wage is non-standard worldwide but not unique. "Super-gross wage" is on the other hand a standard method of taxation of personal income used in 45 % of analysed countries.
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Local currency in Lewes, does it help to reduce the unemployment?
Rybová, Lucie ; Bartoň, Petr (advisor) ; Chytilová, Helena (referee)
This thesis is focused on the research of local currency at Lewes. With regard to the persisting economic crisis and the troubles with high unemployment rates, I asked myself the question whether the Lewes pound could help in fighting unemployment. My research is based on the following idea: The local currency will increase product and services demand at local businesses with positive impact on the employment and unemployment rates. I investigated whether this idea is correct first by means of comparative analysis, where I compared the employment and unemployment rates at Lewes and at Ashford, which is the area that was chosen as the most appropriate one for comparison. Than I used regression and correlation analyses, where I test whether there is dependence between the launch of currency and the employment and unemployment rates. It results from the analyses performed that no dependence of the unemployment and employment rates on the launch of Lewes pound was proved.
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economy cars in the center: the allocation of parking space
Uhlířová, Petra ; Bartoň, Petr (advisor) ; Hudík, Marek (referee)
Possibility of parking plays a role in deciding where to go and the driver where to purchase goods and services. In sectors such as trade, hotels, catering, transport and storage is likely that some percentage of these drivers will form. The paper tries to explain whether the introduction of paid parking zones will affect the growth of businesses in these sectors since the introduction of paid parking zones receive visitors "theoretical" chance to park, compared to locations where paid parking zones are not. Work with the help of least-squares could not determine whether this hypothesis is true in parts of Prague 3 and 7, which introduced paid parking zones in 2008. The model appeared generally statistically insignificant, which can not be concluded whether the introduction of paid parking zones will lead to greater development of businesses in sectors such as trade, hotels, catering, transport and storage in the city of Prague 3 and 7
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