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The impacts of the global financial crisis on the banking centres of Europe according to the main European macro-regions
Hejnová, Tereza ; Blažek, Jiří (advisor) ; Ježek, Jiří (referee) ; Buček, Ján (referee)
The current era of intensive globalisation, digitisation and expansion of FinTech companies and latter the impacts of a recent global financial crisis support further concentration processes within the banking sector. This dissertation thesis explores the impacts of global financial crisis on the European banking centres on the level of major banking centres and tiny banking centres with special regard on the development in three main European macroregions - Western Europe, Southern Europe and Central and Eastern Europe. The banking centres were analysed according financial indicators of banks headquartered in particular banking centre in the indicators capturing size, profitability and the level of risk during the period 2004-2015. Counterintuitively, the European leading banking centres (London, Paris and Frankfurt), despite their extensive exposure to capital markets, dispay a high level of resilience, which contrasts with the evolution of the other major Western European centres, which clearly lagged behind the European leaders. From a macro-regional perspective, banking centres in Western Europe exhibited the first signals of both the crisis and the recovery, which were subsequently diffused across Europe. Surprisingly, the profitability of low-ranking banking centres in Central and Eastern...
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Regional analysis of assets of mutual funds in Czech Republic
Jirman, Martin ; Blažek, Jiří (advisor) ; Hána, David (referee)
Mutual Funds in the Czech Republic are managed and administered by local and foreign investment companies. The aim of this thesis is to execute a regional analysis of assets distribution of the largest mutual funds based on information about portfolio of securities. Thus, it reveals, into which countries (in the case of Czech Republic: regions) and groupings, investments of mutual funds are directed the most. Furthermore, the typology of mutual funds and proprietary structures of administering investment companies are discovered. The results of the work show that investments of the mutual funds in the Czech Republic are concentrated mainly in the capital city, Prague. Concentration of headquarters of local investment companies in Prague has been found out as well, which confirms the position of the capital city as the financial centre. Moreover, the mutual funds operating in Czech Republic invest most of their resources in abroad. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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