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Capital protected funds
Houdek, Ondřej ; Witzany, Jiří (advisor) ; Prokop, Martin (referee)
This thesis is mainly focused on pricing securities of selected capital protected funds. In its theoretical part, there are summarized approaches and principals that are generally used for derivatives pricing because capital protected funds' securities contain embedded options. Emphasis is put on risk-neutral pricing using Monte Carlo simulation at that point because complicated pay-off functions of these funds are hard to be evaluated analytically. There are also presented main approaches to constructions and portfolio management of these funds from their portfolio manager's viewpoint. Finally, there is made an overview of basic types of capital protected funds issued both in The Czech republic and Europe. Analytical part is focused on evaluation of selected capital protected funds. There is applied a standard approach that is based on a simulation of Geometric Brownian Motion with constant conditional variance and correlation in contrast with an advanced approach where the conditional variance and conditional correlation matrix are simulated as well. That is accomplished with GARCH-in-mean and DCC-GARCH models. Estimated prices are compared with real market prices and there is also performance of the standard models compared with performance of advanced ones.
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The stochastical approaches to the claims reserving
Hronová, Lucie ; Witzany, Jiří (advisor) ; Kolman, Marek (referee)
The subject matter of this master thesis is the introduction to the claims reserving methodology applied in the general insurance with the focus on the agragated data represented in the form of triangle schemes. First the basic deterministic methods are to be presented including the Chain ladder method as the most known and widely used tool in claims reserving. Next we will concentrate on the stochastic approaches. The method of bootstrapping is to be described more in detail as it is the main topic of this thesis. Finally the accuracy of the prediction of several specific models and algorithms is to be examined with the goal of their overall comparison (using randomly generated input data).
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New approaches to tax administration
Postránecký, Tomáš ; Vítek, Leoš (advisor) ; Hammer, Jiří (referee)
The thesis deals with different ways of managing the tax administration in member and non-OECD countries. The first part is devoted to tax administration management systems and methods to measure their performance. In the next part, I tried to summarize how the tax administration in Czech republic and selected OECD countries is managed. Finally, I described the evolution of the organization of tax administration and created indicators for measuring performance of Czech republic tax administration over the last 8 years.
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Estimate of potential output for economy of the Czech Republic: Production function approach
Šálek, Pavel ; Pánková, Václava (advisor) ; Školuda, Václav (referee)
The goal of this thesis is to estimate potential output of the economy of the Czech Republic from 1999 to 2011. In the first chapter I focus on description of the overall product of the economy, introduction and definition, mostly NAIRU approach, of the potential output and several approaches to estimate potential output. Production function is analysed in the following chapter from econometric as well as economic perspective. The most important properties of the production functions are also described in this chapter. In the end of the second chapter I deal with three most common types of production function. Estimated values of the variables in the production function including the value of the potential output of the Czech economy and relevant interpretations are presented in the last chapter of this thesis.
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Strategic Cost Management
Boučková, Markéta ; Král, Bohumil (advisor) ; Brabec, Miroslav (referee)
The thesis deals with the strategic cost management (SCM) highlighting particular approaches and their possible synergies. In the beginning, it depicts actual state of this field of research and presents areas related to the SCM including strategic management and business strategies. The main part of the thesis deals with an analysis of the existing three lines of research. A special emphasis is given to the information support of the decision-making process. In order to analyse these approaches the thesis includes selected tools that should define and characterize their requirements. Process-based line includes an examination of Activity Based Costing/Management (ABC/M) model. Product-based line is covered by a calculation of the Life Cycle Costing (LCC). Responsibility-based line aims on the two main pillars of the approach, which are the organisational structure and the performance measurement system. Balanced Scorecard (BSC) model is then used as an example of a complex performance measurement system. In the end, the thesis analyses current state of the managerial accounting and it sums up contemporary trends and influences in the field. Finally, it identifies the main shift towards a managerial accounting that uses various lines of research that together form an efficient synergy that empowers the long-term growth of the company.
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The merton approach to estimating loss given default: application to the Czech republic
Seidler, Jakub ; Jakubík, Petr
This paper focuses on a key credit risk parameter – Loss Given Default (LGD). Writers illustrate how the LGD can be estimated with the help of an adjusted Mertonian structural approach. They present a derivation of the formula for expected LGD and show its sensitivity analysis with respect to other company structural parameters. Finally, we estimate the five-year expected LGDs for companies listed on Prague Stock Exchange and find that the average LGD for the analyzed sample is around 20–50%.
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Supply-side performance and structure in the Czech republic (1995-2005)
Dybczak, Kamil ; Flek, Vladislav ; Hájková, Dana ; Hurník, Jaromír
In this paper, writers apply the aggregate production function to approximate the path of potential output. Writers use a time-varying NAIRU to derive the amount of potential labour and a newly developed measure of capital services to account for the productive impact of capital. In addition, trend total factor productivity is estimated. Production functions for the key sectors (Agriculture, Industry, etc.) are also calculated, exploring the growth accounting approach and decomposition of total factor productivity growth.
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What Central Banks Can Learn from It
Brázdik, František ; Hlaváček, Michal ; Maršál, Aleš
This survey gives insight into the ongoing research in financial frictions modeling. The recent financial turmoil has fueled interest in operationalizing financial frictions concepts and introducing them into tools for policy makers. The rapid growth of the literature on these issues is the motivation for our review of the presented approaches. The empirical facts that motivate the inclusion of financial frictions are surveyed.
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The methodics of plant nutrition and fertilization by phosphorus
Kunzová, Eva
The methodics inform about situation in plant nutrition and fertilization by phosphorus on arable soil in Czech Republic. The methodics indicate two approaches for assessment of fertilization demand utilized as well for checking of phosphorus input limits requested by different legislation. There is evaluated need of phosphorus for expected production and soil fertility stabilization.
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