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Actual discussion about the regulation of the energy market : theory and practice in the Czech Republic and France
Riemlová, Simona ; Hrubý, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Gregor, Martin (referee)
The European energy market has experienced a process of rapid change in recent years. The trend of liberalisation and deregulation is shaping in a fundamental way the environment in which energy companies operate. The aim of this paper is to analyse the present situation regarding the European debate on the liberalisation of the energy market. The analysis includes a theoretical excursus on the problem of the natural monopoly in the energy sector, a description of the European requirements for the organisation of the energy market and an account of the experience of the first countries opening their energy sectors. We will base our affirmation that European directive 2003/92/EC leaves sufficient room for each member state to organise its energy market on its own, on the current debate and the experience of two European Union member states, the Czech Republic and France. The culmination of this paper is section six comparing the present state of the liberalisation process in these two countries, the satisfaction of inhabitants with this process and its impact on energy prices. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Czechs in Berlin, political emigration 1968-1989
Herrmann, Richard ; Šatava, Leoš (referee) ; Kašpar, Oldřich (advisor)
This qualitative study strives to capture the strategies and motivations for emmigration of Czechoslovak citizens to former West Berlin between the years 1968 and 1970, describing it from emmigrants' perspective. The main focus of the study is an analysis of emmigration incentives and strategies utilized by the then Czechoslovak citizens, currently living in Berlin. The theoretical base for the study consists of the theory of collective historical memory, the problem of secondary and tertiary socialization, the (mal)adaptation to new host environments and the biographical approach to emmigration studies. The incentives and strategies of political emmigration are analyzed within the context of the political and social development between the years 1946 and 1970. The study is chronologically organized according to the following historical periods and political events: (1) the takeover of power by communists in 1946-1948, (2) the political persecutions of the 1950s, (3) the liberalization of the communist regime during the 1960s, (4) the events of Prague Spring, (5) the military intervention of the Warsaw Treaty countries, (6) the consolidation and normalization era, (7) the Czechoslovak citizens' mass emmigration between the years 1968 and 1970. In this study, the historical facts and figures are supplemented...
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Crime as one of the socio-pathologies in the city
Tichá, Klára ; Illner, Michal (advisor) ; Večerka, Kazimír (referee)
The study "Crime as one of the socio-pathologies in the city - preventive actions on the local level, social aspects of local security and safety, and the architectural and urban context" - focuses on the occurrence of crime in the city and ways of crime prevention. Crime has become a standard characteristic of the city life, which has in turn created the need to find ways of how to reduce and prevent it. The goal of this study is to describe the crime phenomenon in general, as well as in the city environment, present crime prevention as a way of handling crime, and to show how a concrete city - Prague - deals with this problem. It discusses how crime prevention is organized and who participates in the preventive actions, what the positive, as well as negative, points of the organizations are, what needs for changes exist, and what is involved with achieving them. The study is an overview of the problem of urban crime, based on theoretical materials, former statistics and analyses, and as well on an interview with a coordinator of crime prevention at the city level in Prague. The aim of the first section is to theoretically introduce the problem of social pathologies, anomies, and deviances - among which crime belongs. The theories present the main features of the negative social phenomena. Further, the...
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Europeanization of the British Development Policy?: Development Policy of the United Kingdom From the Point of Vien of the Multi-level Governance
Bydžovská, Marie ; Rovná, Lenka (advisor) ; Jelínek, Petr (referee)
This theses analyses the development policy of a member state of the European Union. It examines the development policy of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Its development policy is explored through the expectations of the multi-level governance theory. According to this theory the governance in European Union is carried out on several different levels. This applies to european politics, polity and also for policies. And one of the European policies is also development policy. This theses argues that the UK exercises its development policy on several different levels. Its traditional bilateral development policy shows aspects of "path dependency". More than half of its development assistence gives the UK to its former colonies associated in Commonwealth. Along with this traditional bilateral development policy the UK exercises its development policy also on the European level when it tries to influence the European governance. Another level is also the subnational level of the local goverment. Because of the restricted scope of my theses I didn't focus on the local level. Also many players are engaged in the cooperation of the UK and EC development policy. Along with the government and executive, the British Parliament and civil society are engaged in this cooperation. This is in...
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Elections, electoral maps, regional difference in the Czech Republic
Kološ, Martin ; Heřmanová, Eva (advisor) ; Kostelecký, Tomáš (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with regional differencies in voting results of individual Czech political parties. The thesis is divided into two main parts. The first part describes a theory of voting systems, focuses on their variants and explains also impact on voting results. The second part contains various types of analysis of voting results of elections into Czech Parliament during period of years 1996 -- 2006. In analysis there we calculate with voting results and social-econimic characteristics for each region. The target of analysis is to find out measure of correlation between mentioned datas.
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Theoretical predictions of the impact of a noisy channel on interpreters' performance in simultaneous interpretation and their empirical verification
Volenová, Eva ; Čeňková, Ivana (advisor) ; Ďoubalová, Jana (referee)
This thesis explores the issue of noise in the simultaneous interpreting process, using the concept of noise as defined in information theory and the model of communication developed by Claude Shannon. The theoretical section of this thesis first offers a brief explanation of the basic concepts involved in information theory, followed by a description of Shannon's model. Selected models of interpreting are then introduced based on this model of communication. A list of potential types of noise is then presented based on the literature examined that may have an impact on the interpreter during simultaneous interpreting. The empirical section of this thesis consists of a questionnaire and an experiment. The questionnaire determines to what extent interpreters find the potential types of noise from the list created in the theoretical section disruptive in their work. The list of types of noise is also expanded based on respondents' answers. The questionnaire also determines what strategies respondents employ to overcome adverse factors. The new types of noise and strategies employed are described in this thesis using open-ended answers from the respondents. The experiment tests the impact of a burst-noise channel on simultaneous interpreting. A total of 13 respondents took part in the experiment,...
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Analysis of the satisfaction of sport event participants
Pokorná, Alena ; Tahal, Radek (advisor) ; Frederiksen, Karolína (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with satisfaction measurement of participants of sport event. This sports event is international junior curling cup in Prague. The aim of thesis is to analyze participants satisfaction with this tournament. Based on these results some critical factors will be identified and also recommendations for organizers of the tournament will be listed to improve the quality of the tournament for next years. In a first part of the thesis there are described customer satisfaction theory and techniques for its measurements. According to suitability for this case the questionnaire survey will be applied. After short introduction to the tournament and some curling rules and specifics analysis of the survey results will be described. More evaluation methods will be used. Based on results from this analysis recommendations for tournament improvement will be given.
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Empirical verification of short-run aggregate supply based on Lucas model and new Keynesian theory
Marošová, Ivana ; Potužák, Pavel (advisor) ; Janíčko, Martin (referee)
The aim of the master thesis is to empirically analyze if there is a support for new classics or new Keynesians as a dominant theory of short-run aggregate supply curve. The analysis is based on dynamic panel data model for 38 countries and period between 1970 and 2014. Because the results show some evidence on negative significance of level of inflation in contrast with its variability, I conclude that there is support for the new Keynesian theory. I focus on examination of the panel data assumptions such as the stationarity of explanatory variables, existence of the individual or random effects, validity of homogeneity of slope coefficients and mainly the cross-sectional dependence of error terms. After testing for these assumptions, I choose the most suitable method of estimation for dynamic panel data models. I use these methods for analyzing both linear and non-linear specification of the given model. As a result, we can see that the selection of right estimation method plays a great role in final outcomes. I also check model robustness by including changes of real oil price as a proxy variable for the supply shock in the economy.
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Economic, legislative and social impacts of gamble gaming and bets in the Czech Republic
Tausch, Michal ; Peková, Jitka (advisor) ; Lechner, Tomáš (referee)
This thesis analyzes gamble gaming, bets and lottery in the Czech Republic. Historic context of hazzard and view of economic theory and the game theory is described in details. This thesis deals with the economic, social and legislative impacts of gamble gaming and bets. Current changes and issues are analyzed in depth, there are also views of the particular subjects included within this analyze. The thesis proves via argumentation the inadequacy of the current legislative framework in the field of gambling and predicts what possible consequences the extensive legislative changes may bring. The Thesis studies the approach of former works dealing with the subject and methods of hazzard social expenses quantification. Current environment of gambling is analyzed on the country level as well as on the municipal level (As an example town Třešť and Jihlava were chosen).
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Specifika úrovně štíhlosti ve vybrané společnosti
Lesňák, Martin ; Martínez, Felipe (advisor) ; Mejdrech, Vlastimil (referee)
The Lean concept arises from Toyota Production Syste (TPS). Then, the concept of leanness includes Value, Waste and Continuous Improvement. An organization with high level of leanness creates higher value to customers with lower level of waste within a continuous improvement environment. The examination of these diploma theses determines a new approach of lean measurement. Although, the use of ethnography is new in Lean management, it opens new possibilities to understand the behavior of the people about the organizational leanness.
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