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The Effects of Securitising Migration: The Case of Slovakia and the Czech Republic
Bandurová, Jana ; Ditrych, Ondřej (advisor) ; Záhora, Jakub (referee)
The Master's thesis called "The Effects of Securitising Migration: The case of Slovakia and the Czech Republic" aims to analyse the extent to which is migration constructed as a security threat in crucial conceptual and strategic documents regarding migration, drafted by the Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic and the Ministry of Interior of the Czech Republic. Given that the Ministry of Interior is a key player in the field of migration in both countries setting the direction of migration policy on conceptual, legislative and implementation level, it enters a discursive field of migration by offering its own understanding of migration, which has a great impact on the policymaking in the area of migration, migration practice and consequently on the life of migrants. Despite the fact that both Slovakia and the Czech Republic have one of the lowest shares of foreigners within population in the whole European Union as well as neither of the two countries have been the final destinations of migrants during the so called refugee crisis, we can identify the dominant role of security discourse in both countries. To get a better insight into a wider social context, the thesis also builds on the number of "texts and talks" dealing with the issue of migration beside the official policy documents and...
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Alternative financing of small and medium-sizes enterprises
Vacula, Jan ; Kotáb, Petr (advisor) ; Kohajda, Michael (referee)
Alternative financing of small and medium-sized enterprises This thesis analyses whether the legal framework, both present and envisaged, regulating securitisation and crowdfunding is likely to improve the access of small and medium-sized enterprises to financing. The first chapter focuses on securitisation, with a particular focus on securitisation of SME loans. In doing so it evaluates the costs and benefits associated with securitisation, as well as securitised assets and the products of securitisation. The following part describes the mechanism of both a true sale and a synthetic securitisation. The key part of the chapter, however, deals with the legal framework regulating securitisation as well as each individual step of a securitisation transaction, and analyses several issues that may arise under Czech law in relation to securitisation. Next, the proposal for the securitisation regulation, which proposes criteria for qualified securitisations, is introduced. This chapter concludes with an evaluation of the said proposal and presents a level of scepticism as to its intended positive impact on SME financing. The second chapter deals with crowdfunding. After a general introduction into crowdfunding and its various business models, the rest of the chapter focuses on financial crowdfunding, i.e....
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Media and Securitisation: Islam as a Threat
Bulantová, Klára ; Střítecký, Vít (advisor) ; Ditrych, Ondřej (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the relationship between the security and media discourse. Securitization, a model originally developed by the Copenhagen school, is here understood as a long term process which depends not only on a one-time designation of a certain phenomenon as a security threat, but it is co-constructed by many factors and agents. The media represents the world; it both reflects and forms its picture Critical discourse analysis enables the examination of the construction of security threats in the particular texts plus it also involves contextual factors in which it expands and deepens the insight into the particular issue. This work attempts to show through which means and in what respects Islam is or is not represented as a security threat in a chosen part of Czech online news discourse. It especially emphasizes the role of news values, routines and dominant ideology in securitizing processes.
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Viktor Orban's National Hungarian Identity Construct - Securitization of 2015-2016 European Migrant Crisis as Existential Threat
Stein, Kenneth Cavanagh ; Střítecký, Vít (advisor) ; Hynek, Nikola (referee)
Charles University in Prague Faculty of Social Sciences Institute of Political Studies Bc. Kenneth C. Stein Viktor Orbán's National Hungarian Identity Construct: Securitization of the 2015/2016 European Migrant Crisis as Existential Threat? Diplomová Práce Praha 2017 Autor práce: Bc. Kenneth C. Stein Vedoucí práce: PhDr. Vít Střitecký M. Phil., PhD. Oponent práce: Datum obhajoby: 2017 Hodnocení: Abstract: The current paper examines Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's speech acts based on the preface that his language communicates political will, power, and serves as an outline for potential future political avenues. Orbán has been one of the most outspoken critics of the European Union's failure to adequately address the ongoing migrant crisis, as well as Europe's immigration issues. The aim of the thesis is to examine the language tools utilized by Orbán according to securitization theory. Utilizing elements of Wodak's Critical Discourse Analysis in combination with Tajfel and Turner's Social Identity Theory, the thesis provides analysis of the texts through the lens of Orbán's creation of a national Hungarian social identity construct as referent object being securitized against the migrant threat. Moreover, the thesis provides an overall analysis of Orbán's brand of Hungarian social identity...
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Mortgage Backed Securities
Reznák, Pavel ; Radová, Jarmila (advisor) ; Málek, Jiří (referee)
Má diplomová práce se zabývá Mortgage Backed Securities, což jsou cenné papíry kryté hypotékami. V první části práce jsou MBS zobrazeny jako část skupiny strukturovaných aktiv. Je zde provedeno jejich srovnání s ostatními sekuritizačními instrumenty z hlediska struktury a vlastností a také je znázorněno jaká část jim připadá na sekuritizačním trhu. V další části je věnován důraz na podkladová aktiva MBS, tedy hypotéky. Důkladně je rozebrán americký hypoteční trh, druhy a objem poskytnutých půjček a jejich specifika. Jsou popsány polovládní agentury specifické pro americký trh, které napomáhají rozvoji hypotečního trhu. Hlavní část práce je věnována popisu tvorby Mortgage Backed Security, značná část se zabývá jednotlivými druhy a charakteristikami MBS. Je zde popsáno, jaký druh je vhodný pro určité typy investorů. Důraz je kladen na riziko předčasného splacení, tedy riziko spojené pouze s hypotéčními produkty. Závěrečná kapitola se věnuje jednotlivým typům MBS ze statistického hlediska. Je znázorněn jejich celkový objem na dvou hlavních trzích, v USA a Evropě, dále jsou popsány počty emisí jednotlivých druhů a další zajímavé statistické údaje spojené s MBS trhy.
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Securitised assets and their reflection in accounting
Hřebíček, Michael ; Brada, Jaroslav (advisor)
The aim of this thesis is the description of securitised assets and their accounting. The thesis is divided into four chapters. First deals with the securitisation process and the creation of securitised assets. Second chapter deals with the accounting of debt securities in general. Third chapter reflects the fair value. The fourth chapter deals with specific problematic fields and their impact on financial institutions and their balance sheets.
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Causes and context of the global financial crisis
Voráček, Lukáš ; Taušer, Josef (advisor) ; Černá, Iveta (referee)
The thesis discusses the causes of the contemporary financial crisis. Most of the attention is paid to two in this context absolutely crucial markets and to their pre-crisis development -- the American real estate market and the American mortgage market. Within my real estate market analysis I describe the reasons for the emergence of the price bubble, the burst of which essentially triggered the financial crisis. Concerning the mortgage market, I focus on its numerous specifics, primarily on the risks related to the application of the disintegrated credit granting system -- so called originate-to-distribute (OTD) model.
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Current financial crisis and its impacts on small enterprises in the Czech Republic
Brázdová, Jarmila ; Taušer, Josef (advisor) ; Černá, Iveta (referee)
The aim of my diploma thesis is not only theoretically describe the financial crisis as such, but it tries to handle a specific case study and tries to emphasize how these problems are solved in small firms in the Czech Republic. The work analyzes and at the same time solves the financial crisis in the global economy in general. These theoretical issues are then applied to the particular case of one of the many small businesses in the Czech Republic, which is engaged in foreign trade, sale and service of measuring techniques. My work tries to solve every impacts of current financial crisis to this company. It tries to outline possible steps and to propose solutions that may affect and reduce the impact of current financial crisis on small businesses in the Czech Republic.
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Indebtedness of households-causes, impacts, comparison
Suchánková, Martina ; Jílek, Josef (advisor) ; Rybáček, Václav (referee)
The thesis will deal with reasons that lead to households becoming in debt on one hand, and on the other hand, the impacts that are caused by this process. Households are the biggest economic subject that create savings. They are also the second biggest debtor of the financial sector. From this point of view, there is an important role for the banks and financial institutions that offer households many kinds of credit products. The role of the central bank and its monetary policy and supervision are also important. In the theoretical part of the thesis some approaches of various economists will be described and monetary policy and defined economic subjects will be explained . In the second part of the thesis, ways that can run people into debt and the evolution of interest rates will be analysed. Focus will be also put on innovation that has arisen in financial markets, that have made credit expansion possible, mainly securitisation. After that an analysis of negative and positive macroeconomic impacts will follow, which are brought on by excessive financing of consumption and housing. The thesis will finish with a comparison of the households' debt in the Czech Republic and in other developed countries.
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