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Jan Sembera Cernohorsky of Boskovice and the heritage of the House of Liechtenstein
Dufková, Kateřina ; Šedivá Koldinská, Marie (advisor) ; Kostlán, Antonín (referee)
This diploma thesis is dedicated to Jan Sembera Cernohorsky of Boskovice, Moravian aristocrat from the second half of 16th century, the last descendant of an important family of Boskovice. It describes his life story from the childhood to the death which it puts into the broader context and creates a comprehensive view of the higher nobles of his time. Particular attention is paid to the family of Boskovice, especially its last generation, which represent aside from Jan Sembera primarily his brother Albrecht Cernohorsky of Boskovice and Semera's friend and relative Jan of Boskovice and Trebova. The specific role in Jan Sembera's biography necessary plays the transfer of the legacy of the house of Boskovice to the Liechtenstein's family. This was accomplished through two marriages between Karl and Maxmilian of Liechtenstein and Sembera's daughters Anna Marie and Katerina. The importance of those alliances is reflected in the perspective of both financial as well as cultural capital inherited by the House of Liechtenstein and the way how did they use and treat it.
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Proposal for the organizational structure of Kartex a.s. after the merger project with Slim Rope s.r.o. Analysis of opportunities and risks of the merger and the potential economic effects from organizational changes
Mucha, Tomáš ; Jaklová, Martina L. (advisor) ; Gregořica, Rudolf (referee)
In my bachelor thesis I dealt with the ongoing merger of Kartex a.s. and Slim Rope s.r.o. (names are changed due to the wishes of management). In the theoretical part, I outlined the theoretical aspects related to the topic of mergers and acquisitions. In the practical part I will then be dealing with every posibility where synergy could be found, risks that can araise during the merger i.e., there are particular unconnected corporate cultures, and there must be working two, till now, competiting brands side by side, and also design a new corporate culture. The goal of my work was to capture the essence of the problems emerging in the process of "post merger integration (integration of business), because in these moments failures occure in 80% of all business combinations.
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Differentiation of yeast colonies and development of new approaches to monitor oxygen and nutrient availability
Vopálenská, Irena ; Janderová, Blanka (advisor) ; Demnerová, Kateřina (referee) ; Pichová, Iva (referee)
Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as an unicellular organism is one of the best-studied experimental organisms. It is an important model organism for the study of intracellular processes of eukaryotic cells. Yeasts are also social organisms with cell-to-cell communication able to form organized multicellular structures (colonies and biofilms). Yeast and other microorganisms in nature prefer to form colonies on solid substrates rather than to grow as "planktonic" single cells (Palková, 2004; Wimpenny, 2009). The yeast S. cerevisiae typically forms colonies, biofilms were described only rarely. Yeast colonies exhibit an organized morphological pattern characteristic of each particular yeast strain (Kocková-Kratochvílová, 1982). This work is focusing on morphology and differentiation of the S. cerevisiae colonies of common laboratory strains forming less structured colonies, and strains of the Σ1278b genetic background forming highly structured "fluffy" colonies. It shows that polarized budding pattern and especially cell ability to form aggregates enable development of structured morphology. During development of "fluffy" colonies two differently regulated events of dimorphic switch from yeast form to filamentous growth occur. One of these events is dependent on the surface glycoprotein, Flo11p flocculin. This...
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Analysis of usury legislation
Červenková, Tereza ; Lechner, Tomáš (advisor) ; Jurčík, Radek (referee)
The project analyzes current legislation on usury in the Czech Republic and the financial literacy of the adult population. On 1 Dec. 2016, an amended Act on Consumer Loans entered into force and this project examines it. The project compares Czech legislation on usury with selected European Union countries. Czech legislation is similar with German and Portugal legislation, especially in terms of civil law. The most effective legislation can be considered in Spain, which explicitly stipulates allowed interest rate limits. Based on that, Czech legislation on usury should be adjusted. The research results show a correlation between respondents' highest-achieved level of education and their financial literacy levels. The research also finds that the number of court distraints (property seizures) and the willingness to borrow money is lower among respondents with university-level education than for respondents with secondary and basic school education. When comparing our findings with research by STEM/MARK dating from 2010, it is clear that the financial literacy of the adult population in the Czech Republic has not changed significantly since that time.
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Mortgage Loans and Methods of Their Financing in the Czech Republic
Vaněk, Ladislav ; Brada, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Kováč, Michal (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with mortgage loans in the Czech Republic. Its goal is to characterize the mortgage loan, include it among banking products and outline the perspective of a client, a bank and a regulator. Other goals include analysis of the mortgage market development and selected influencing determinants. The first chapter describes the progress of mortgage lending especially on development in the Czech Republic from 1990 to the present. The following chapter includes the theoretical definition of the mortgage loan, explaining its significance and inclusion in the system of banking products. There is an example of rescheduling with tables - explaining the influence of the interest rate and the repayment period on the total cost of the mortgage loan. The third chapter deals with the financing of the mortgage loan from the bank point of view, focusing on mortgage bonds. The last chapter focuses on performance determinants influencing the evolution of the mortgage market. Subsequently, an econometric model is used to study their impact on the development of the mortgage market.
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Beyond words: visual aspects in the work of Virginia Woolf
Šilpochová, Michaela ; Beran, Zdeněk (referee) ; Hilský, Martin (advisor)
Throughout her career Woolf was captivated by questions about the relationship between literature and painting, word and image. Her intense interest in the field of the visual arts was reflected in her development of a new literary method. Woolf's use of the visual arts in her writing largely transcends a mere decorative function. Her employment in her texts of visuality represents a significant stylistic innovation by means of which she rejects the conventional way of depicting reality and the descriptive realism of the nineteenth- century writers. In attempt to develop a modern way of writing, which would render reality more in accord with the modern sensibility, she employed in her texts principles underlying the contemporary theory and practice in the visual arts relying particularly on the aesthetics of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. The principles of these two styles exist side by side and complement each other even in Woolf's later works which have been considered as predominantly post-impressionist. The objectives of Post- Impressionist art became known to Woolf through the theories of Roger Fry which turned out to be a major formative influence in the shift towards her new aesthetics.
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Trusts and Open-ended investment companies
Houfek, Ivan ; Černá, Stanislava (advisor) ; Klimeš, František (referee) ; Liška, Petr (referee)
Univerzita Karlova v Praze Právnická fakulta Disertační práce Trusty a společnosti s variabilním kapitálem - abstrakt anglicky - školitel: Prof. JUDr. Stanislava Černá, CSc. doktorand: Mgr. Ivan Houfek ak. rok: 2011/2012 2 Abstract in English This work deals with issues of trusts and open ended investment companies with regard to the legislation of countries with common law legal system. Trusts are specific common law legal concepts which have no equivalent in legislation of countries with continental legal system. They are based on different features of ownership and on other specific legal concepts. Among these concepts for example belongs common law and equitable ownership or joint tenancy. Trusts have evolved from the medieval concept called "uses", therefore no legal definition of trusts is provided. Trust has no legal personality but neither is it just an obligation. Trust is used to be defined as "an equitable obligation, binding a person (who is called a trustee) to deal with property over which he has control (which is called the trust property) for the benefit of persons (who are called beneficiaries) of whom he himself may be one and any one of them whom may enforce the obligation". The work explores division of trusts according to different criteria - private and public (charitable) trusts;...
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Max Bruch - Violin and chamber works
Panochová, Veronika ; Štraus, Ivan (advisor) ; Štraus, Ivan (advisor) ; Hůla, Pavel (referee) ; Pazdera, Jindřich (referee)
In this Bachelor theses we can find a brief biography and a view of works of the german composer Max Bruch, with emphases on his violin and chamber works. This theses shows the circumstances and the details of compositions. It shows Bruchs´life and tries to find the strogest influences on the composerś work .Last but not least, it tries to find the reason why Max Bruch was so little accounted composer.
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Analysis of the privatization process in Russia in the nineties
Mustivaya, Julia ; Půlpán, Karel (referee) ; Mlčoch, Lubomír (advisor)
This work aims after more than twenty five years to assess the processes of privatization, which took place at the end of the twentieth century in Russia. Analysis of the privatization, its legal framework, realization and the consequences will enable us to conclude that a change of ownership form from state to private one alone does not guarantee the emergence of effective owner and proper functioning of the market economy. Privatization of state enterprises could have a positive impact on economic activities of entities only if it was accompanied by the necessary institutional transformation, which would provide a precise specification of property rights, the creation of the actual mechanisms of their exchange and the emergence of market competition.
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Macro-finance modeling of yield curve - Czech analysis
Škop, Jiří ; Mandel, Martin (advisor) ; Kodera, Jan (referee) ; Komárek, Luboš (referee)
This doctoral thesis devotes itself to macro-finance models of the Czech yield curve that enable the modeling of the yield curve as a whole and belong to the group of multi-factors models. These factors are unobservable or latent variables, and are intuitively called level, slope and curvature. Macro-finance models not only fit the yield curve through the use of latent factors, but they also try to provide a macroeconomic interpretation. The macro part of the model uses a type of VAR model, where the macroeconomic variables are endogenous or exogenous, or some macroeconomic model based on e.g. a New Keynesian economy. Such a type of models can answer (1) how the macroeconomic variables affect the yield curve, and, on the other hand, (2) how these macroeconomic variables are affected by the yield curve. The EUR/CZK exchange rate and the external environment play an important role in the Czech small open economy (in particular, developments in the eurozone and the impact of global investors' sentiment toward risky assets). Thus, we should take this into consideration when applying to Czech data. It has been shown that temporary macroeconomic and financial shocks (to inflation, output gap, EUR/CZK exchange rate, external demand, etc.) strongly affect the short end of the yield curve; however, longer spot rates react only marginally. The longer end of the curve may move more significantly in the case of a longer duration of the above-mentioned shocks (thus affecting inflationary expectations) or in the case of shocks to the inflation target and real equilibrium interest rates.
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