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Food market development in the Czech Republic
Marchak, Roksolana ; Smutka, Luboš (advisor) ; Leopold, Leopold (referee)
The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to analyse the development of production and consumption of food products on the Czech market, to determine the level of self-sufficiency and conduct factor analysis of selected plant and animal commodity aggregates in the period from 2002 and 2015. Specifically animal products: milk, meat: pork, beef, poultry, eggs and plant: fruit and vegetables. Generally they describe the trends and tendencies that influence developments on the Czech food market. Correlation analysis and point elasticity or descriptive statistics like median, average, minimum, maximum, and standard deviation were used to achieve the target.
The result of this thesis is a complete analysis and definition of results and causes of production development: The production decline in commodity aggregations like pork, poultry, then the eggs of chicken, vegetables and fruits, fluctuating development trend of production was at meat beef and conversely the only growing trend of production was for milk. Subsequently, the result was defined by completing the analysis of consumption of those products like: a slightly downward trend in the consumption of pork, chicken eggs, significantly decreasing trend in beef consumption, while growing trend in the consumption of milk and milk products, poultry, vegetables and fruit.
The result was also to determine the degree of self-sufficiency of selected products, with the highest rate appeared to be in beef meat and milk with all the other aggregates the consumption was higher than production.
And finally: defining the dependence of the volume of consumption of products on the following factors: the gross money income of the population of the Czech population and development in consumer product prices and the subsequent measurement of the strength of the dependence. Dependence occurred in beef and pork on the size of income, and so for this kind of meat to consumer price developments.
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The analysis of Russian economic performance in the light of competitiveness and natural resource curse phenomenon
Kuzmenko, Elena ; Maitah, Mansoor (advisor) ; Smutka, Luboš (referee)
Recent years a lot of debates have been taking place around Russias dependence on natural resources, especially on crude oil and natural gas, and consequent necessity to escape from it through diversification of the Russian economy. The research problem of the present doctoral thesis therefore is to investigate whether Russia demonstrates any success in this process or not. The main goal of the thesis is to analyze Russian economic performance along with Russian producers (representing corresponding economic sectors) relative position towards foreign rivals in external and internal markets and via investigation of the real effective exchange rate of ruble and quality of Russian institutions shed some light on the presence of Natural resource curse phenomenon in the Russian economy. The analysis of Russian economic performance in the light of competitiveness was seen as justified since the results of that analysis may reveal the existence of perspective points of growth in the economy. In the final stage of the research the existence of a long-run interrelationship was checked among the structure of Russian export basket, GDP growth, price of crude oil and the real effective exchange rate of Russian ruble with the use of Johansen cointegration technique.
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Agricultural in terms of Sustainable Development of Agrarian Sector
Frýdlová, Monika ; Boháčková, Ivana (advisor) ; Smutka, Luboš (referee)
The sustainability discourse clearly gives priority to the so-called "three-pillar model", according to which sustainable development should equally try to reach ecological, economic, and social goals. An increasing variety of methods is being proposed to address the question of the measurement of sustainable development. The concept of sustainable development can be interpreted in many different ways, but at its core is an approach to development that looks to balance different, and often competing, needs against an awareness of the environmental, social and economic limitations we face as asociety. Submitting theses deal with measuring sustainable agriculture and introduces a practical methodology for evaluating the sustainability of agriculture system by means of composite indicators. This methodology was based on calculating seven sustainability indicators that cover the three components of the sustainability concept (economic, social and environmental). The methodological proposal implemented in theses allowed an integrated vision of agricultural sustainability and careful selection of sustainability indicators, carried out on the basis of reliability criteria and applicability. The evaluation of agricultural sustainability/production system sustainability using the methods suggested is a potentially useful tool for public decision-makers who are tasked with designing and implementing agricultural policy. The results demonstrated the usefulness of analyzing several sustainability indicators in conjunction, in order to obtain more robust results. Such information can help to improve current agricultural policies, such as income policy, agricultural structure policy and rural development policy, with the aim of improving the sustainability of the agricultural sector.
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Czech Republic's Foreign Trade
Waage, Kryštof ; Smutka, Luboš (advisor) ; Řezbová, Helena (referee)
This bachelor thesis analyses the development of territorial and commodity structure values of the Czech foreign trade. The most significant changes in the Czech foreign trade, which occurred during the last 20 years, are identified. Finally competitiveness of individual aggregations representing the Czech foreign trade is identified in two dimensions - in relation to the competitiveness of the EU countries and further competitiveness in relation to the rest of the world.
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Food market price development in the Czech Republic
Bartolenová, Kristýna ; Smutka, Luboš (advisor) ; Leopold, Leopold (referee)
The aim of the thesis was to identify the degree of sensitivity between the prices on the Czech market, prices on market of European Union and prices on world market and to quantify associations among them. Secondly, the intensity of the relationships was questioned. The analysis was done on the selected segments of food industry, which was represented by food market, they are meat, dairy products, fats and oils, sugar and cereals during the period of years 2005 to 2014. Correlation analysis, elasticity sensitivity and descriptive statistics were used to achieve the objectives. The results found a strong relationship between the Czech prices and prices in European Union. However the relationship between the Czech and global prices was not found to be that significant.
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Agrarian foreign trade of the Czech Republic
Kodatová, Martina ; Smutka, Luboš (advisor) ; Leopold, Leopold (referee)
This thesis has been developed with the intention to get acquaint with the development of agrarian foreign trade of the Czech Republic. The analytical part is based on theoretical knowledge included scientific literature and expert articles and together with the theoretical part describes the development of agrarian foreign trade of the Czech Republic from the year when Czech republic became a member of the EU to the present.
Finally, the thesis includes a description of the structure of Czech agricultural foreign trade, both territorial and commodity, with the aim of defining the most significant innovations and most promising territories and commodity items, in terms of current and future. Research is processed summary data regarding the identification of changes in the development values, competitiveness, added value and unit prices in the period. Within the statistical analysis is then processed data and the conclusion, the results of the analysis are summarized.
In the reporting period shows a majority of value development and partial characteristics of agrarian foreign trade of Czech Republic upward trend despite the fact that Europe is facing and struggling with economic or business crises. Balance of agricultural foreign trade for 2015 is 18,382 miles. CZK, which means that it is more oriented on imports. However, the degree of coverage of imports by exports is moving at 90.7%, which is 30% more than in the year of Czech Republic's entry into the EU.
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Agrarian foreign trade of the Czech Republic
Sluková, Magdaléna ; Smutka, Luboš (advisor) ; Řezbová, Helena (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to assess development of the agrarian foreign trade of the Czech Republic after accession to the European Union. This thesis analyses the changes and factors that affected territorial and commodity structure in the course of the analysed period. The thesis deal with the analysis of the competitiveness in the context of detection of the most representative export commodities in relation to member states of the EU, third countries and particularly in relation to Germany, Slovakia and Poland. The competitiveness of agricultural commodities is evaluated by two indicators Ballasa index (RCA) and Laffay index (LFI). Based on the results of the analysis it is obvious that the results of the Czech agrarian foreign trade after joining the EU are very positive, especially in the case of still higher growth rate of exports over imports growth rate. The development of the Czech agrarian foreign trade is affected by factors associated with the entry to the EU, especially by the Common Agricultural Policy and the Common Commercial Policy. The results further show that both the commodity and territorial structure are very concentrated. Territorial structure of export and import increasingly focused on EU markets and this trend can be seen on the decreasing share of third countries. The positive trend in the commodity structure is a gradual increase in the export of commodities with a higher degree of processing. The Czech Republic is able to gain and maintain comparative advantages in some aggregations despite barriers of the country.
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