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Arming Subsaharan Africa (2011-2020)
Hoza, František ; Kofroň, Jan (advisor) ; Doboš, Bohumil (referee)
Most countries in sub-Saharan Africa lack the capacity to produce arms and military equipment, so they are fully dependent on arms imports. At the same time, the arms trade has a strong political dimension, which is a huge volume beyond the financial trade itself. The aim of this work is to provide a descriptive analysis of the armament of sub-Saharan Africa between 2011 and 2020. This work uses data to define the largest exporters and importers in the region over a period of time and examines the effects of various variables on arms imports and exports to sub-Saharan Africa. Data for analysis were collected from a publicly available databank such as The World Databank or SIPRI. R studio with the assistance of ggplot2 and tidyverse packages was used to analyze and process all data. Thanks to this analysis, we found that, contrary to previously stated hypotheses, Chinese arms imports to sub-Saharan Africa are no longer growing than Russia, and Russia is still the largest arms exporter to the region. Some data suggest that there are correlations between arms imports into the region and war conflicts, which cause the two variables to interact.
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Proposal of Marketing Mix of the Selected Company in an International Environment
Šuleková, Petra ; Fehér, Jozef (referee) ; Milichovský, František (advisor)
This diploma thesis deals with the adjustment of the marketing mix of a selected company when importing a new brand of truck tires to the Slovak market. The work consists of three main parts. The first part deals with the explanation of theoretical concepts related to the researched issues. In the second part, attention is paid to the analysis of the current state of the selected company, where selected analyzes are used. It includes a research part, which focuses on the marketing mix by addressing the target segment. In the last part, there are proposals and recommendations regarding the marketing mix which are based on the analysis, in order to address a selected target segment in the Slovak B2B market.
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Nord Stream Pipeline and its Meaning for European Gas Industry
Moravcová, Iveta ; Svoboda, Karel (advisor) ; Fischer, Jan (referee)
The bachelor's thesis lays emphasis on the North Stream pipeline and its consequences to European gas market. For this reason, first part of theses analyses its legislation and legal framework, including relevant historic elements. It also concerns to liberalization and infrastructure problems. This part enables reader to obtain reference scope and better understanding on legal and political influences related to gas industry. Second chapter provides market breakdown in accordance with registered values: it takes into consideration demand, consumption, supplies and new market trend elements. The most of its part describes import and suppliers relation that provides full view on the most important supplier Russia - fully dedicated in following chapter, which is necessary for understanding of Russia itself and it possibilities resulting also in its attitudes. The theses also deals with influence of Russian domestic consumption and planned supplies for Asia and EU, EU countries dependence on Russian's gas supplies, the 2006 and 2009 gas crisis between Russia and Ukraine and also relates to general causes and implications for EU countries energy security threat. The third part relates directly to the Nord Stream pipeline itself, to its history, Nord Stream consortium shareholders and especially to...
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Technologies, endowment and foreign trade: testing the Heckscher-Ohlin model on Czech data
Kroulíková, Šárka ; Semerák, Vilém (advisor) ; Jeřábek, Jakub (referee)
One may observe a growing trend of figure measuring the ration between export and gross domestic product that applies for almost all countries. In response to this phenomenon theories dealing with international trade becomes more important. The capability to identify some trends in commodity movements and determine advantages rising from bilateral trade are key aspects of economic growth and country development. This thesis deals with the analysis of international trade between Czech Republic and Germany. Fundamental determinant of trade between countries is Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem and as my research instrument I choose Input-Output methodology. I decided to use two types of calculation, while evaluating the validity of mentioned theory. First is Leontief methodology from 1954, which led to famous Leontief paradox. Second and more modern approach is the one developed by Riedel in 1974. In quantitative part of my analysis I focused my attention on two calculations with purpose to state factor endowment and country's production intensity. The meaning of this analysis is to confirm the validity of Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem, which would lead to conclusion that commodity movement between Czech Republic and Germany is driven by neoclassical theory of comparative advantage.
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The Economic Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Chinese Cities: What Can We Learn from the SARS Pandemic?
Zhang, Yueyue ; Šťastná, Lenka (advisor) ; Semerák, Vilém (referee)
Using the quarterly and monthly data of ten representative cities in China from December 2000 to June 2021, this thesis describes the impact of COVID-19 on the urban economy, import and export, and quantifies the impact degree by panel data regression analysis. To explore the relationship between the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and urban categories, we distinguished different types of cities. The results show that COVID-19 has the most profound impact on coastal towns, followed by megacities. It is mainly due to the excessive dependence of coastal towns on import and export trade. We also understand the lagging effect of the pandemic on the economy by adding dummy variables representing the SARS pandemic. Facts have proved that while formulating related policies, the government has to consider the lagging effects of the impact of the pandemic on the economy. JEL Classification C51, I18, O47 Keywords COVID-19, pandemic, China, economy, import, export, government policies Title The Economic Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Chinese Cities What Can We Learn from the SARS Pandemic
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An alternative system of trade barriers in international trade. Case study on Slovakia
Gajdošová, Natalia ; Fiřtová, Magdalena (advisor) ; Szobi, Pavel (referee) ; Amini, Chiara (referee)
This thesis's objective is to whether the customs duty's dissipating its strength in its ability to create balanced conditions for the presence of competing goods in one market that are from in two mutually inhomogeneous production environments and to propose a conceptual framework for long-term action. Application of grounded theory based on comparative analysis of quantitative data within a case study allowed for a creation of data-emergent theory in the subject area of international trade. A core category of connection between an individual's wage and the level of customs duty levied on an imported good has been developed to offer an explanation of the core phenomenon of the customs duty's lost strength. Through the theoretical conceptualisations, the variable of developed core category impacted the creation of the variable of the ratio comparing the amount of customs duty levied on imported good with the average monthly wage of the individual. The conceptual model explains 3 theoretical propositions explore the analogy which results in explanation of the core premise of this thesis. Applied emergent theory, allowed for proposal of long-term action of the alternative to customs in a form of an increased value added tax on imported goods.
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Proposal of the Strategic Plan for the Import of the Bulgarian Product
Číhal, Vít ; Schüller, David (referee) ; Chlebovský, Vít (advisor)
Tato diplomová práce se zabývá kritickou analýzou možnosti importu a následné marketingové strategie importu Bulharského produktu Kiselo Mlyako danou společností na trh České Republiky. Cílem práce je zjistit, jestli je tento produkt vhodný pro daný trh a jestli je tento strategický tah úspěšný. V práci jsou popsány informace důležité k provedení praktické části práce, která obsahuje analýzu trhu i společnosti, která by daný strategický návrh provedla. Práce dále obsahuje souhrn informací, které byly z jednotlivých analýz zjištěny a doporučení, které by společnost měla podstoupit. V poslední řadě je vytvořený stručný finanční plán.
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The impact of international trade on Slovak economy
Voleková, Zuzana
The bachelor thesis provides an overview of the international trade of Slovakia and its impact on the economic growth. It determines the relationship between Slovak export and import on the GDP and studies if these variables influence each other. This investigation is made according to the econometric analysis measured in programme Gretl. It also describes how the Euro adoption in year 2009 affected the trade and the GDP and in what dimensions. Afterwards, it analyses the trade from the commodity and territorial point of view.
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Transformace zahraničního obchodu Litevské republiky v kontextu integrace do evropských struktur
Růžičková, Elena
Růžičková, E. The transformation of the foreign trade of the Republic of Lithuania in the context of integration into European structures. Bachelor thesis. Brno: Mendel University, 2017. This bachelor thesis focuses on evaluation of the successful transformation of the foreign trade of the Republic of Lithuania in context of dependence on The Russian Federation and the integration process into the European Union. There is analysed the transformation of territorial and commodity structure of export, import and foreign direct investment from beginning of the transfor-mation in 1991. The results are compared with Estonia and Latvia as countries which also have undergone the transformation process.
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