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Are subsidies to business R&D effective? Regression discontinuity evidence from the TA CR ALFA programme
Bajgar, Matěj ; Srholec, Martin
Governments subsidise business research and experimental development (R&D) to promote development of the economy, because externalities and information asymmetries inherent to the innovation process make private funding of these activities fall short of what is socially desirable. Nevertheless, how effective such subsidies are and whether they achieve their goals is an open question that needs to be studied empirically. This study leverages the state-of-the-art method of regression discontinuity (RD) that allows us to come very close to making causal inferences about the effects of subsidies, to find out whether the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic’s (TA CR) ALFA programme stimulated new business R&D inputs, outputs, and positive economic impacts that would not have happened otherwise.
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Dealing with the risks in crop production by commercial insurance
Novotný, Marek ; Daňhel, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Ducháčková, Eva (referee)
The main purpose of this thesis is dealing with the risks in crop production by commercial insurance. The paper provides description of the occurrence and form of the risks in crop production and agricultural insurance as one of the ways of the protection against them. It analyzes the development of crop insurance from 1986 to present, discusses how statutory insurance was provided by the state insurance company until 1990 and also presents the current form of commercial insurance, including a detailed comparison of offers according to the relevant insurance conditions. The next part of the thesis is focused on the government subsidies on agricultural insurance operated in the Czech Republic. The last part of this thesis describes possible trends of future strategies of risk management in the agricultural business including uninsurable risks. These possible trends are presented and discussed in several models.
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Analysis rail market in the Czech republic
Šubrt, Marek ; Písař, Pavel (advisor) ; Zemplinerová, Alena (referee)
This thesis deals with the analysis of the Czech railway transport, which still maintain their dominant position CD, joint-stock company. In the theoretical part I will introduce the concept of the Austrian school of economics on competition and monopoly. According to this concept, the monopoly is formed exclusively by the state through an artificially created barriers to entry into the industry. Subsequently, I will focus on the concept of regulation, which will be based on the ideas G. Stiegler, who has come up with the concept of regulation in the interest of the regulated. Based on the theory of the SBC I will analyze the status of the CD on the market for rail transport. The practical part will be therefore based on the following CD's analyzed position on the Czech market and I will apply theoretical knowledge to the case of Student Agency, limited company (resp. RegioJet, join-stock company), which has vainly trying to promote in this market. I will analyze here how tenders of regions (hence the Ministry of Transport) have taken place and why the above mentioned company hasn't gain access to the railway market in the CR. My goal is on the case of Czech Railways to confirm (or disprove) the conclusions of the Austrian theory that the only way to maintain a monopoly position in the market are government intervention in the form of artificially created barriers to entry into the industry.
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Agricultural insurance in the Czech insurance market
Novotný, Marek ; Ducháčková, Eva (advisor)
The bachelor thesis analyzes the agricultural insurance in the Czech insurance market. It describes the occurrence and form of the risks in agriculture and agricultural insurance as one of the ways of the protection against them. It briefly describes the development of agricultural insurance in the territory of today's Czech Republic and after that the characteristics of the crop and livestock insurance in the last ten years. Another part of the work is focused on the government subsidies on agricultural insurance operated in the Czech Republic. The largest part of this bachelor thesis is focused on describing and comparing the insurance terms and conditions of the three major insurers in the market of agricultural insurance in the Czech Republic (České pojišťovna a.s., Generali Pojišťovna a.s., Agra pojišťovna).
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Environmentally Harmful Subsidies
Štěpáníková, Iveta ; Dvořák, Antonín (advisor) ; Hadrabová, Alena (referee)
This bachelor thesis attends to topical theme of environmetally harmful subsidies. On the beginning it will engage in common characteristics of the most important sorts of subsidies, that are direct to environment in Czech republic. In the following two methodics will be describe close to appreciation of relation subsidies to environment: Ministry of environment methodology and methodology OECD. The next practical part of work will illustrate an action of valuation upon chosen subsidy and with the help of SWOT and multicriterional analyse will determine, as this factual subvention affect environment. To analyse will be used a methodology examination of enviromental disutility subvention, published by Ministry of environment. The purpose of this work is identification with situation and progress in research area of environmental disutility subventions in Czech republic and the analyse of relation chosen subsidy to environment.
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