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New Impulses into EU-NATO Cooperation? France, United Kingdom and EU-NATO Relations
Konířová, Hana ; Weiss, Tomáš (advisor) ; Karásek, Tomáš (referee)
Working and close relations between European Union and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Alliance) has always been considered as essential. Despite the fact that both organizations perceive their relations as crucial and recognize the need to enhance them, the official cooperation had to (and still has to) face many obstacles. There are many limitations to closer EU-NATO relations, among the most significant is ranked the still unsolved Turkey- Cyprus dispute, forming the real obstacle to strategic partnership between Union and Alliance, and also the issue regarding the potential establishment of the European permanent operational headquarter. The current deadlock is foremost caused by Turkey strictly interpreting the Berlin Plus agreement. The situation became much worse with the accession of southern Cyprus into the EU resulting in nearly absolute impossibility of any official contacts due to the restrictions to collaborate under the agreement only for the members of NATO or PfP. Turkey was not alone playing the obstructive role, the other "trouble maker" and Turkeys traditional counterbalancer from the Union side was France. EU and NATO were perceived by France as rivals and their relations as "zero-sum game". French attitude from the Union's side was matched by the Turkey's from the side of...
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Manipulation of securities' prices
Crha, Jiří ; Kříž, Radim (advisor) ; Štěpánek, Petr (referee)
This diploma thesis handles the issue of manipulation of prices of securities and other investment instruments. First part of the thesis is dedicated to legal and theoretical introduction into the topic. First, there comes the legal analysis of manipulation on the communitarian level, which is then followed by regulation in Czech legal order. Legal norms are interpreted within the aim, they are following. In addition, supervisory functions of Czech National Bank and Committee of European Securities Regulators are mentioned as well. As for the practical part, the description of different forms of manipulation is followed by the in-depth analysis of impact of investment recommendations to securities' prices. At the end of the thesis, there are some cases of market manipulation, which happened in the past, analysed within the context of actual legal regulation on the field of capital market protection.
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The University Entrance Examination and New School-leaving Exam
Belháčová, Zuzana ; Kratochvílová, Věra (referee) ; Vasileská, Marie (advisor)
In connection with the legislative changes which have been taking place in the Czech Republic since the adoption of the New School Act and in accordance with the European Union recommendations, the demand for measurable results in education, which would be transparent, valid, reliable and comparable, has arisen. The issues connected with the evaluation of results in education will be dealt with in an autonomous institution - Centre for the Evaluation of the Results in Education (CERMAT). The newly established institution will start functioning on January 1st 2006.1 The Centre for the Evaluation of the Results in Education (CERMAT) is going to build on the results and data, which had been collected in the 2001 - 2006 period in the Centre for the Maturita Reform through annual research programmes, which were part of the programme cycle called "Step by Step to New Maturita".1 Graduation theses deal with testing issues in Science subjects (with the emphasis on Chemistry), ways and means can make use of the results in education (CERMAT) for entrance examination on university in the 2007-2008 period, interpretation of statistic data in relation to a test and to individual items. The basic principles of testing can make use of creation and test construction from chemistry on secondary schools. With the help of...
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Význam institucionálního prostředí pro zemědělskou výrobu
Minárik, Pavol ; Šíma, Josef (advisor) ; Chalupníček, Pavel (referee)
The paper examines significance of institutional environment for agricultural production. It adds to the extensive research of agricultural production functions. First, it reviews relevant theory of institutional economics that explains how institutions contribute to productivity in general, especially if interpreted as economic freedom. Then, a model of agricultural production is presented, which explains aggregate agricultural production using various inputs, as well as variables representing institutional environment. Results concerning elasticities of material inputs (land, labor, capital) are consistent with previous research. The paper proves some significance of institutional variables. Finally, it suggests some directions for further research.
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Server www.o2extra.cz and its usage as a connection tool of communication a sponzorship activities of Telefónica O2 Czech Republic, a.s.
Havlena, Lukáš ; Stříteský, Václav (advisor) ; Dufek, Tomáš (referee)
The thesis of this work is focused on evaluation of effectivity of server www.o2extra.cz, in a context of todays Internet phenomenon - Web 2.0. Server O2 Extra is a community web, which is used as a place for sponzorship and loyality programme. User can do variety of things - read news about sponzorship projects, take part in a contest or discuss with others and watch photos. The theory part is aimed at introducing Web 2.0 to the reader - given examples of Web 2.0 are: Google, Myspace, Facebook and Last.fm. Their functions and goals are also listed, as it's crucial to understand how community servers work. Space is given also to a part about sponzorship activities, as O2 Extra is mainly used as a headquarters for them. Main part of the work is about O2 Extra itself - its functions and visual look is described and presented, followed by the own effectivity evaluation. For this purposes, Google Analytics was used as a evaluation tool. The conclutions and interpretations are given right after presented statistics, statistics as visits, bounce rate, pageviews etc. Work can be therefore used as a manual for O2 Extra owners, to improve its effectivity and number of users.
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Politics Public Administration with the Participation of Stakeholders in Decision-Making with the Focus on Lobbying
Vejskrabová, Markéta ; Just, Petr (advisor) ; Skovajsa, Marek (referee)
This thesis deals with the phenomena of lobbyism which has entered Czech cultural background together with pluralistic, representative democracy late in recent years. This feature has not a necessary tradition and it is still confronted with vague understanding of his function by Czech laic community. This thesis is outlined thus to first answer the questions where is lobbing held, how is it proceed and who are the groups which are lobbing. Last mentioned chapter is comparison of the different lobbing of non-profit and profit organizations, which are the main participation groups on decision making through their representative - the lobbyist, who presents interests of the group and often also the possible impacts of this particular law on their fields of interests to politician. The situation in Czech Republic is not conciliated to lobbing. The aim of this thesis is the recognition that if lobbing is defined, established and regulated does not need to be accompanied with hidden corruption and manipulation with public interest. The possible models of regulation are demonstrated on system of regulation by the facultative codex in Great Britain and the system of normative regulation by law in United States of America. From those and other cases of regulation in different states gain the result that the...
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Fairy-tale motivs in the Czech poetry of the 2nd half of the 19th century
Vlčková, Barbora ; Šmahelová, Hana (advisor) ; Vaněk, Václav (referee)
The bachelor thesis Fairy-tale Motives in Epic of the 2nd half of the 19th Century is based on an analysis of selected texts and their reading, which lead to the enlightening of meaning-creating function of fairy-tale motives in the 2nd half of the 19th Century. The thesis focuses itself on the form of a fairy-tale as a specific narrative form and on a transformation of its function within the context of poetry using fairy-tale features. At the same time, the reference to the tradition of folk fairy-tale is reflected, being represented by the personalities of Karel Jaromír Erben and Božena Němcová. Interpretation of the works is grounded on the study of Vladimír Propp Morfologie pohádky (Morphology of Fairy-tale) which established the structure of fairy-tale functions. The conclusions of this work are based on the comparison of the epic pieces Dědův odkaz (Grandpa's Legacy) by Adolf Heyduk and Vyšehrad by Julius Zeyer with Propp's functional analysis.
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The Regional Assembly and committee in South Bohemia
Petrů, Alexandra ; Mates, Pavel (advisor) ; Louda, Tomáš (referee)
This work deals with an assembly as a main body in the South Bohemian Region. The objective of this work is to analyze its role in legal regularization. The first chapter pursues genesis of regions. The second chapter edits region election, election returns in each regular term and their interpretation. Then the work attends to right and duty of Assembly members. The next part of this work is making decisions in the Assembly in the Region. The last part follows the committees of the Regional Assembly -- important consultative bodies for the Regional Assembly.
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The Influence of European Central Bank Interest Rates upon Consumption in Eurozone Countries
Glykner, Daniel ; Mandel, Martin (advisor) ; Chytilová, Helena (referee)
First, this paper presents basic definitions of the consumption function and gives a summary of main theoretical concepts of consumption as well as an overview and discussion of important papers on consumption. Above all, papers examining the influence of the interest rate upon consumption are accented. Furthermore it contains a brief context summary of current and potential eurozone members, work of the ECB and execution of common monetary policy. Subsequently we discuss the hypothesis of a possibly asymmetric impact of the interest rate upon consumption in individual countries, expand and justify the hypothesis based on indebtedness, wealth, etc. Empirically, hypotheses are tested on historical data of individual countries: transmission between interest rates of central banks (later the ECB) and market interest rates, correlation analysis of consumption changes and central interest rates in individual countries, correlations with year-on-year changes. Also, consumption functions are estimated using time series models while testing alternative variables in the regression equations. We discuss analysis results and methods used; the influence of the interest rate upon consumption seems to be small and the relationship type is not much different across the eurozone countries. Eventually, we outline possible implications of our results with respect to the future of the eurozone and related activity of the ECB.
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The central bank and its function in the economy
Guth, Karel ; Kopecká, Lenka (advisor) ; Soukup, Alexandr (referee)
The following thesis describes the importance of the central bank in the states economy and its position in the structure of the banking and financial system. It deals with its monetary policy and functions such as the role of the state bank, issuance activity or the regulation and supervision of commercial banks. The theoretical part is concluded by describing the Maastricht convergence criteria, which is built on in a questionnaire survey of the practical part.
The practical part is divided into two sections. The first is focused on the exchange rate as a monetary tool of the Czech National Bank. It attempts to compare how successfully CNB has achieved its predictions from 2014 (the year when the foreign exchange interventions were initiated). The second section contains an interpretation of the results from the survey, with the aim of identifying the attitudes of Czech citizens towards adopting the euro currency. Subsequently, testing of a statistical hypothesis for contingency between selected issues was performed and connections within the columnar frequency of the contingency tables were observed and picked out.
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