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Ownership of real property under Czech law
Škvára, Pavel ; Salač, Josef (advisor) ; Dvořák, Jan (referee) ; Uhlíř, David (referee)
1 Pavel Škvára Ownership of real estate in the Czech legal order Abstract The reasons, why I decided to choose as a topic of my dissertation, issues of ownership in the Czech legal code, it was just a few. In the first place, therefore, that the legal concept of property rights is seen in any democratic legislation, as the basic instrument governing private relations in society. And as such a fundamental tool must be properly treated in the legislative plane. The concept of the ownership, may seem at first glance a very clear and smooth, but the opposite is true. Really fine and perfectly understand this concept and to understand its theoretical structure, is not simple at all. In particular, on the grounds that many legal theorists interpret the content of the concept of ownership a little differently, and there was no agreement on the definition of unique match and the determination of the theoretical sources of this concept. Of course, in the case of authoritarian or totalitarian regimes is the institutes of the ownership in national legal systems often formally retained, but its content and form are often significantly modified. The aim of the thesis was also to focus on the issues of real estate. Real estate can be understood as a special group of things that have specific characteristics, are often...
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Modelling an Interconnected Economy- General Equilibrium and Matching Model Approaches
Dobrotková, Zuzana ; Boháček, Radim (advisor) ; Galeotti, Andrea (referee) ; Kamphorst, Jurjen (referee)
Modelling an interconnected economy - general equilibrium and matching model approaches (Abstract) Zuzana Dobrotková This doctoral dissertation consists of three theoretical articles with a com- mon interest in the creation of interconnections in an economy and the role of these interconnections in spreading bad shocks. The spread of bad shocks has been explored in economics literature mainly in the context of contagious bank runs but the following articles focus on different aspects of economy where the effects of deterioration of an economy's characteristics occur. Interconnections in economies are often necessary for production or they serve as an insurance tool but they at the same time expose the economy to a possible spread of damage. The mechanism is very simple. A negative shock that hits one agent in the economy can spread through interconnections in the economy, such as financial linkages between banks, supply linkages between firms, or personal linkages, like marriage, between agents. In the following models I study optimal creation of interconnections in two different types of economy and I also study properties of an interconnected economy in general equilibrium. In the first article I propose a general equilibrium model of an economy where firms are connected through supply linkages crucial for...
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Essays on International Currency Markets
Poghosyan, Tigran ; Kočenda, Evžen (advisor) ; Orlowski, Lucjan (referee) ; Kutan, Ali M. (referee)
1 ABSTRACT Essays on International Currency Markets By Tigran Poghosyan This dissertation consists of three essays on foreign exchange risks in international financial markets and financial integration in the new EU member countries. The first essay focuses on the determinants of foreign exchange risks in post-transition economies. Using a unique dataset on foreign and domestic currency denominated deposit rates in Armenia, we estimate excess returns on foreign exchange operations, which are free from the impact of country risk and transaction costs. The calculated excess returns are largely positive (existence of the premium for risk) and exhibit substantial variation over time. The two-currency interdependent factor affine term structure model captures the time- variability of the risk premium and predicts that the Central Bank interventions in the foreign exchange market and ratio of volumes of foreign and domestic currency denominated deposits (proxy for external shocks) are important explanatory variables driving the premium. The GARCH-in-Mean approach supports the previous conclusion and suggests that the Central Bank interventions (policy factor) are significant for the premium on the short horizon, while deposit ratios (fundamental factor) are more influential on the long horizon. It was also found...
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Classroom environment
Boušková, Alena ; Linková, Marie (advisor) ; Kalbáčová, Jaroslava (referee)
The theme of this dissertation is social and physical environment of classrooms and schools. The theoretical part characterizes the educational environment and briefly describes psychosocial climate investigation methods at elementary schools. The practical part explores actual social climate using standardized questionaire "My class Inventory - Actual form" and physical climate using author's original questionaire, evaluating acquired results.
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Iranian dress culture (women's dress and its change after revolution)
Kubošová, Kamila ; Korecká, Zuzana (referee) ; Štěpánová, Irena (advisor)
I have structured my thesis into four sections. In the first section, I describe the clothing, make-up and physical appearance that is expected of a woman in public. The second section of my thesis focuses on the influence politics and legal regulations had on women's clothing and women's reactions to these. In the third and fourth sections I explore both my theoretical view and the views of Iranian women I surveyed on the reasons for the important role clothing plays in the society, and why does even the state pay so much attention to the women's apparance. My thesis focuses on the cloting of women in cities, for all changes are significantly faster and sooner apparent in cities than in the conservative countryside. It is from the cities that changes are spread throughout the country. Cities also connect Iran to outside world and are therefore under the influence of other cultures. Although the clothing style of Iranian women absorbs and incorporates foreign elements, these are taken out of the original context and used in new unique ways. 60
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Social acceptance of transsexuals
Maroszczyková, Irena ; Kutnohorská, Jana (advisor) ; Schneiderová, Michaela (referee) ; Hosák, Ladislav (referee)
61 ANNOTATION Author: Irena Maroszczyková Institution: Department of Social Medicine LF UK in Hradec Králové Nursing Department Title: Social Acceptance of Transsexuals Leading tutor: Kutnohorská Jana, doc. PhDr., CSc. Specialized consultants: Jarolím Ladislav, doc. MUDr., CSc., Mgr. Barbora Dibdiaková Page count: 96 Attachments: 4 Year of defence: 2010 Key words: Transsexualism, accepting transsexuals, respect, perspective This dissertation focuses on public acceptance of transsexuals. Transsexuality is a term we are nowadays hearing more and more about however only a little minority of our society is aware of what transsexualism actually is and most do not realize it is not only a medical challenge but also social one. In this work I am firstly focusing on the fundamental information about transsexualism such as brief history, diagnostics, phases of the changing gender process, treatment, transsexuality and its legal and social aspects. Secondly, I am exploring the presence of transsexualism in public and its position both here and in the world. Finally, I am not forgetting to mention the role of nursing by psychotherapeutic help, support in adapting to the change, preparation for the surgery and following care. The part of the research work is created of half-structured interview, which contains 15...
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Essays in Corporate Finance
Joeveer, Karin ; Jurajda, Štěpán (advisor) ; Ongena, Steven (referee) ; Kotrba, Josef (referee)
This dissertation consists of three essays about firm financing. The first essay detects the bank-firm relationship in a transition country while the second and third essays address the importance of country factors in a company's capital structure decisions. The question of the extent in which the financial sector problems "spill over" to firms is an important issue to study and it is particularly under-explored in the context of transition economies, where the financial systems are fragile. In my first essay I study the effect of an Estonian bank's failure in 1998 on its corporate loan clients by comparing the performance of clients to that of a random sample of other firms. First, I analyze whether bank bankruptcy causes the bankruptcy of client firms. I find that client firms are less likely to survive until 2000 even after controlling for their pre- bank bankruptcy performance. Second, I analyze the behavior of firms' profitability, liquidity, and growth of fixed assets. I find liquidity to be the only variable that decreases for the client firms compared to the control firms after the bank bankruptcy. In my second essay I evaluate the importance of firm-specific, country- institutional and macroeconomic factors in explaining the firm leverage variation simultaneously. I use a large European...
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The beer and the pubs in culture of Czech society
Soudková, Jitka ; Matějů, Martin (advisor) ; Czumalo, Vladimír (referee)
The object of our dissertation is to explore and specify the particular role that beer plays in the Czech culture. It also addresses its historical, social, cultural, and local development. We aimed to examine the function of beer and its cultural configuration; its setting and significance in cultural and social system; and its influence on behavior and experience of individuals. Furthermore, we have focused on both cultural;historical transformation of beer consumption on the Czech historical territory and drinking public spaces - pubs - as active cultural and social institutions. We regard pubs as places where pro;social and reciprocal behavior is accepted and active social interactions are expected to happen. Moreover, we are concerned with claim that roots of Czech national enlightenment lay in rural environment of village inns where Czech language was still widely spoken and preserved. In addition, we describe and assess a development of the brewing industry and related institutions; the status of so;called "barfly" as a particular social and cultural category. Last but not least we mention the gender problematic. In past, it was highly socially inadmissible for women to enter the pub without being accompanied by male counterpart. Therefore, we focused on this matter using heuristic and compilatory...
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Culture and migration: Czech military observer and mission abroad
Horký, Radek ; Hnilica, Karel (advisor) ; Soukup, Václav (referee) ; Lapka, Miloslav (referee)
Dissertation thesis deals with the relevant questions related to culture, personality, and migration. The topic has been elaborated within the context of operations of the Czech military personnel in observation missions abroad. It comprises of theoretical and empirical part. Theoretical part summarises basic conceptions on that issue. Empirical part is an explorative research that retlects broadly the issue of specific work-related migration. Appendix of the study inc1udes the summary of the missions that the Czech Armed Forces personnel have taken part in as military observers since 1989 and DVD with original film from the author' s place of work during his service for UN mission MONUC in the Democratic Republic Congo.
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