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Ochota podniků platit za environmentální úspory
Katrincová, Lucie
Katrincová, L. Diploma thesis. Willingness to pay for environmental savings. Brno: Mendel University, 2019. This thesis deals with the determination of the willingness to pay (WTP) for envi-ronmental saving in enterprises in the Czech Republic, using the so-called Contin-gent valuation method. Determination of WTP works with a hypothetical situation where there are environmental savings presented in the form of “ecological” ma-chine, which has lower CO2 emissions. Significant regressors affecting WTP are: the age and gender of the respondent, the size of the enterprise, and the variable that expresses whether an enterprise is willing to pay to protect the environment beyond the statutory duty. An estimate of the willingness to pay for 1 tonne of CO2 is about 12 700 CZK. The main motives for pro-environmental behavior are: the moral aspect and the sense of responsibility for the state of the environment, a better image of the enterprise, the competitive advantage and the consequence of pressure from business partners or customers.
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Validity of Direct Measurement of Stated Willingness to Pay in the Context of Fair Trade
Mičínová, Veronika ; Remr, Jiří (advisor) ; Hendl, Jan (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with validity of direct measurement of stated willingness to pay (WTP) in the fair trade context based on two-phase measurement applied in the INESAN survey. Attention is also paid to the unit of answer to an open-ended question and to the functionality of WTP as an indicator of purchase intent. First, fair trade, the concept of WTP with focus on areas of its application, ways of measurement, critics and problems of its use are introduced from the theoretical perspective. Further, cognitive aspects of the process of answering survey questions as a way of testing the functionality of a measurement tool are analyzed. The thesis is built on a combination of two survey methods, cognitive interviews and secondary analysis of quantitative data. It concludes that measuring WTP for the purpose of capturing the value of fair trade using direct stated method of measurement is problematic as numerous risks with impact on validity of acquired data appear. Those risks concern both the particular way of measurement and the direct stated WTP measurement in general, starting with ambiguous interpretation of WTP questions for a fair trade product among respondents. The thesis also shows that answering open-ended question in the form of percentage is cognitively more demanding than in the...
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Approaches to the valuation of cultural organizations
Tomišková, Monika ; Kislingerová, Eva (advisor) ; Pokorný, Jiří (referee)
This thesis deals with a relatively new issue in the Czech Republic, which is valuing cultural organizations. The general framework for the valuation of non-profit cultural organization is analysed in the theoretical part. It includes a discussion of the importance of culture for society, the characteristics of non-profit organizations and subsequently defining the potential value of the concept of cultural organizations, reasons and methods for valuation of such organizations. Special focus is paid to the transformation of the Prague theater net. The aim of the practical part is to determine the approximate value which the czech society would lose, if the prague theatre Činoherní klub terminates its activities due to financial reasons. Contingent valuation method is applied as a procedure, which is based on detection of individual willingness to pay (WTP) or willingness to accept compensation (WTA), through a questionnaire survey. There is also a determination of the status of the valued theater at the Prague theater market in the practical part.
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Cost - Benefit Analysis on noise limits increase
Zelenka, Václav ; Vojáček, Ondřej (advisor) ; Ropický, Jan (referee)
The objective of the thesis is - with the aid of cost benefit analysis - evaluate economic impacts of planned amendment to Regulation of the Government No. 148/2006 Coll. On Health Protection from Adverse Effects of Noise and Vibration, namely based on the case of specific road track. Amendment to Regulation is aimed at making existing noise limits softer (to increase them) and thus to bring about savings in investment cost connected with anti-noise measures. The thesis intends to use a single case study to find out whether benefits resulting from price reduction in the process of road construction are higher than costs in the form of decrease of welfare caused by the higher noise exposition; alternatively at what period savings in costs connected with road construction equal to decrease in welfare (savings in costs are one-off, while increase in noise exposition and related drop in welfare are long-term). Estimated changes in welfare are based on analysis of secondary sources -- first of all on the study of traffic externalities in the Czech republic conducted by contingent valuation method. The actual core of the thesis is cost benefit analysis. Attention is paid also to broader discussion on experience in providing exceptions from noise limits in the Czech Republic.
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Evaluation of the Impact of Wind Turbines on a Landscape
Urbášková, Martina ; Melichar, Jan (advisor) ; Kaprová, Kateřina (referee)
The goal of the work is to provide monetary valuation of changes in visual aspects of the landscape as a result of construction of an additional wind turbine in the village Maletín. For a suitable method for achieving the goal is being selected the contingent valuation method. A key element of this method is being considered the carefully compiled questionnaire, on which basis is made the quantification and evaluation of collected data. The representative sample consists of 112 households and the selected payment method is the increase of the monthly bill for electricity. The questionnaire reports that 54.3% of households consider the impact of wind turbines on the landscape Maletín to be positive. With the construction of additional wind turbine agree less than 74.3% of households and the most common reason is to obtain grants for the village and to produce cleaner energy from wind turbines. With the construction of new wind turbine while increasing monthly bill agrees 28.6% of all households living in the village Maletín. Estimation of changes in a welfare, thus improving the quality of the environment, is based on estimated central values, that has been calculated from selected characteristics and nonparametric estimation. The average household's willingness to pay for construction of wind turbine is estimated to be between 77 CZK - 200 CZK per month.
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