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Príliv priamych zahraničných investíciíc do krajín V4
Chovanec, Miloslav
Chovanec, M. Determinants of foreign direct investments to the V4 countries. Bachelor thesis. Brno: Mendel University in Brno, 2020. The aim of this thesis is to identify the determinants of foreign direct investment to the V4 countries. The aim of the thesis is fulfilled through regression analysis of time data of selected variables in the period 1997 to 2019. The work also describes and evaluates the development of foreign direct investment inflows to individual countries. The identified indicators point to the diversity of results within the V4 countries. In the Slovak Republic, the most significant factors influencing the inflow of foreign direct investment are the factors inflation and infrastructure. For Czech Republic the main factor is infrastructure and corporate tax factor for Poland. For Hungary, no factor was found to be significant at the 1 % level of significance, but some factors are identified that affect the inflow of foreign direct investment to Hungary at 5 and 10 % of the level of significance, namely GDP per hour factor, inflation and action factor elections in a given year.
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Fondové pilíře důchodových systémů zemí V4 a jejich produkty
Šteffková, Klára
The thesis is focused on the functioning of pension systems in Visegrad countries, especially on the importance of the particular funded pillars within these systems. The whole pension system is analysed for each country, including the general comparison with focusing on the funded pillars and their products. The comparison is based on selected criteria. This thorough comparison then helps to form the suggestions for funded pillars in Czech Republic, which could lead up to improvement of the current situation regarding the social security in our country.
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Pledge fulfillment in NATO: free-riding of "new members"
Slánský, Jan ; Kučera, Tomáš (advisor) ; Rosendorf, Ondřej (referee)
The diploma thesis focuses on the causes of the phenomenon of free-riding and the approach to fulfilling commitments towards NATO and burden-sharing in general in the cases of "new" NATO members. The timeframe of 2015-2019 and the qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) method combined with three case studies (Lithuania, Hungary, Romania) were chosen for the research. The QCA focused on four independent variables - economic situation, perceived level of threat, strategic culture (Atlantism/Europeanism) and ideological orientation of the government (left/right). The perceived level of threat proved to be a necessary and potentially sufficient variable. However, among the investigated cases, there was none empirically confirming the sufficiency. The simplest combination of variables that led to fulfilling the commitments and was supported by an existing case was a combination of an intensely perceived level of threat and the strategic culture characteristic of Atlanticism. Because already existing research on free-riding indicates that it is a multi-causal phenomenon, the author is inclined to the opinion that the mentioned combination of variables is the simplest sufficient combination. The economic situation proved to be without significant influence. The QCA results also indicate the ideological...
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Influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on success and politics of the governing parties in countries of the Visegrád Group
Parušev, Jan ; Stauber, Jakub (advisor) ; Guasti, Petra (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the party systems and governing parties of the Visegrad Four in 2020 and 2021. Using comparative analysis, it examines this impact on opinion polls and elections, the level of digitalisation and the erosion of democracy. The paper is divided into three parts. In the first part, I explain the key concepts used for the analysis - good governance, quality of governance and adaptive or agile governance - and describe the methods and data used. In the second part, I describe the course of the pandemic through the lens of these concepts, and in the third part I answer the research questions established in the theoretical and methodological sections.
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How the World Views the Israeli and Hungarian migration policies
Piletskaya, Vera Nika ; Riegl, Martin (advisor) ; Landovský, Jakub (referee)
The vitality of study of migration and its outcomes has become one of the red flags of the century. Since the years 2014-2015 western countries have become the destination, but how does the world see migration policies of Hungary and Israel - the two very far from each other states that, with a detailed analysis of their regulations, laws, detentions, and facilities for those purposes, appear to have a number of correlations. Badly equipped detention centres and/or camps, long-time application procedures, attempts to relocate refugees, and built-up fences form the common ground of the two countries. Robert Cooper's theory from "The Breaking of Nations" (2004) on the state formation is meant to differentiate the world into three categories, pre-modern, modern, and post-modern. Those would have different opinion on Israeli and Hungarian migration policies, but how does that perception vary? Three focus states would be the representatives for those types of state formation. Libya is for pre-modern states, those are unstable and face the risk of falling from the uneven, usually military, order to chaos; the United States of America comes as a representation of the modern states, which focus on the balance of power, and national security and privacy of their affairs prevails over other matters; and the...
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Application of Article 7 of the TEU: the cases of Poland, Hungary and Romania
Sechovcová, Anežka ; Šlosarčík, Ivo (advisor) ; Weiss, Tomáš (referee)
Some of the member states of the European Union are currently facing a rule of law crisis characterized by threats to the independence of the judiciary, to the media or to the freedom of speech. The situation is most critical in Hungary and Poland where these values are being systematically violated. However, Romania is also among the member states facing a crisis of the rule of law,mainly because of the threatsto the independence of judiciary and the limitation of anti-corruption measures. Since the value of the rule of law is enshrined in Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union, its violation is a reason for sanctioning the member state. The European Union has several instruments at its disposal to sanction these states and as well protect European values. One of the most important is the mechanism under the Article 7 of the Treaty on European Union which can cause a member state to lose its voting rights in the Council of the European Union. Using the process tracing method, the thesis traces the steps taken by the European institutions to apply this mechanism in the cases of Poland, Hungary, and Romania. The aim of the thesis is to determine whether there are interdependencies among the three cases. Based on the research, it can be concluded that there are significant differences among the...
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Democratic erosion and media in Central Europe
Nováčková, Michaela ; Guasti, Petra (advisor) ; Mlejnek, Josef (referee)
The bachelor thesis analyses the declining media freedom in relation to the transformation of the ownership structure in Hungary and Poland. In the theoretical part, it introduces the reader to key concepts and definitions of democratic backsliding, which places in the context of the basic historical development of media freedom in the two selected countries. In the analytical part, the thesis focuses on three variables: state advertising, ownership structure and delegitimization of journalists, according to which it compares the situation in Hungary and Poland on the basis of a paired comparison. The aim is to find out what effect the changing ownership structure has on media freedom and how this is reflected in the quality of democracy of political regimes.
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Significance of Trianon treaty and Hungarian minorities in neighbouring countries in Hungarian politics after 1989
Adámek, Oliver ; Mlejnek, Josef (advisor) ; Kubátová, Hana (referee)
The presented bachelor thesis analyses the impact of Trianon treaty and Hungarian diaspora in Hungarian politics after fall of communism. Effect of this topic in Hungarian politics is being explained by analysis of important events of Hungarian politics connected to the Trianon- topic, as well as by analyzing and presenting Hungarian state budget spendings on subsidies directed to Hungarians living in post-trianon regions. At the same time, the thesis describes the impact and position of Trianon topic in the ideology of prime minister Orbán, the governing Fidesz party and the so-called "national cooperation regime." As a result of the analysis, we can state that the Trianon topic became a crucial dividing line in several moments of the Hungarian domestic and also foreign politics, which is illustrated by relations between Hungary and Ukraine, which are also described in the thesis. This phenomenon also represents one of the important ideological basics of Orbán's specific political system. The topic's importance remains strong even after the country joined the European union (and the borders have practically disappeared), which is confirmed by the growth of Hungarian state budget financial sources directed on the so-called national politics - meaning the politics of Hungary in the relation with...
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Marketing Mix during the Company's Expansion into the Hungarian Market
Zapletal, Jakub ; Bumberová, Veronika (referee) ; Kaňovská, Lucie (advisor)
This diploma thesis is focused on marketing mixture of Czech company, which is operating on B2C and B2B markets and optimalization of this company to Hungarian B2C market. The first part of this diploma thesis is focused on problematics and goals of this thesis. Theoretical part defines basics of marketing, marketing mix, company analysis and its surroundings. Next part of the thesis is focused on analytics and characteristics of current status of the company and Hungarian market. The last part of the thesis is focused on suggestions and optimalization of marketing mixture for established e-portfolio with main goal of successful infiltration to hungarian market and get results leading to the introduction and stabilization of the brand on the hungarian market.
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