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Crop production in the world with a focus on cereals and oilseeds
Sárazová, Klára ; Vošta, Milan (advisor) ; Kašpar, Václav (referee)
The aim of this master thesis is to analyse the current trends in production , consumption and trade in cereals and oilseeds. Furthermore, the work seeks to highlight the ever growing importance of these two groups of crop production. It also addresses the issue of declining growth in global agricultural production in relation to the growing population and the factors that affect the price of agricultural commodities. The entire work is conceived in three main chapters. The first provides a particular theoretical framework and includes definitions, localisation factors and many other basic data. The second chapter focuses on crop production in the world and its trends, paying particular attention to the group of cereals and oilseeds. Finally, the last chapter analyzes the world trade in cereals and oilseeds. It also examines the factors affecting prices of agricultural commodities and concludes prediction of the future development of the cereals and oilseeds sectors.
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Effectiveness of the government expenses on alcoholism prevention in the period of 2003 - 2013
Jeřábek, Denis ; Barák, Vladimír (advisor) ; Brabec, Petr (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with expenditure on drug policy and impacts of this policy on consumption of alcoholic beverages in the Czech republic in the period of 2003-2013. The theoretical part characterizes the drug policy in the monitored period. Moreover, it deals with definition of roles and responsibility in this policy, provided services and programs of the National drug strategy. In the second section of the theoretical part there is a focus on consumer tax, while the amount of them has a big influence on the consumption of alcohol in the Czech republic. The theoretical part discusses in depth the consumption of all alcoholic beverages, it also analyzes the expenses of the drug policy and effectiveness of them in details. The result of this bachelor thesis is the fact, that the expenses of the drug policy may affect the final consumption of alcoholic beverages. However, the consumption of alcohol can be influenced by many other factors. The recommendation of this bachelor thesis is an idea of creating a separate drug policy, what may cause a struggle against considerable alcohol consumption more effective.
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Gas trade
Andrsová, Nicola ; Čajka, Radek (advisor) ; Bolotov, Ilya (referee)
The bachelor work deals with the natural gas as a commodity, transport and storage potions, world gas market and its development since 80s of the last century. It also extends the possibility of using gas in the future for a variety of purposes. The main theme is the Czech Republic's position in the global gas business, especially in terms of relations with the European Union, Ukraine, and Russia. The analysis in this part is based on data on gas reserves in the world, the volume of production and consumption of gas and gas flows throughout Europe from the major exporters, especially the gas flows from Russia via Ukraine. For the Czech Republic, it focuses on the possibilities of enhancing energy self-sufficiency, especially the construction of the gas tank in a premises of Rožná gas storage and Mozart pipeline, which would mean the Czech and Austrian gas system hook-up. Consideration must also be given the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian gas crisis and its impact on gas supplies to Europe and/or the Czech Republic. The aim of this work is to outline the development of gas trade, the possibility of its further use, otuline the basic principles of the European legislation and the options for enhancing energy self-sufficiency of the Czech Republic and also to evaluate the Russian-Ukrainian gas crisis.
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Gas industry and natural gas trade in the Czech Republic
Procházka, Václav ; Sedláček, Jiří (advisor) ; Šichová, Lucie (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the development of the gas industry and natural gas trade in the Czech Republic. The goal of this thesis is to analyze the trade and consumption of natural gas in the Czech Republic and to evaluate the position of Czech Republic as a transit country, supplying European countries with this scarce energy source. The introduction reviews the history and development of the gas industry in the Czech Republic. This further includes the description of entities operating on the Czech natural gas market. The main part focuses on the evaluation of the importance of natural gas to European countries and especially on the analysis of imports and exports of Czech Republic. The last part deals with the analysis of the Czech natural gas transit and its importance for Europe's energy security.
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Analysis of the economic behavior of households in the period of years 2008-2013 in selected countries: the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary
Maslák, Dominik ; Štípek, Vladimír (advisor) ; Řežábek, Pavel (referee)
This bachelor thesis analyzes change of economic behavior of Visegrad group household in the period 2008--2013, which is characteristic by economic crisis. The main part of this thesis is focused on analysis of indicators relating to revenues, expenditures, savings and debt of households. This thesis indicates that the economic crisis negatively signed on household sector of these four countries, whereas the most critical was the year 2009. Real gross disposable income and final consumption expenditures of households declined. Precarious economic condition, which was reflected also in labor market, forced households to provident behavior about their debt and savings. It turned out that the most negatively affected by the crisis were Hungarian households.
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Modern approaches to the city development planning and conceptions
Kostelecká, Lenka ; Khendriche Trhlínová, Zuzana (advisor) ; Kouřilová, Jana (referee)
The thesis introduces chosen initiatives that reflect the changing atmosphere and social values of population in the economically well-developed part of the world. The change in the social values is a consequence of deepening socio-cultural and economic interdependence of the regions and the cities in the globalised world. Main presumptions of successful implementation of the initiatives are analysed in order to confront it with the environment of the Czech cities. The main objective of the thesis is an evaluation of the readiness for the usage of these new initiatives in the current Czech city development. There is a visible change in social values among the Czech population under way, however that is typical for its hedonic character. Most of the presumptions are more or less fulfilled with the regional differences. Some of the initiatives have even already been successfully implemented with the positive impact on the environment. Therefore further involvement of similar initiatives could be expected in the future.
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The development of household consumption in the Czech Republic
Pěnička, Jan ; Pavelka, Tomáš (advisor) ; Rusmichová, Lada (referee)
This Bachelor thesis deals with the development of household consumption in the Czech Republic , especially in macroeconomic terms . The aim of the Bachelor thesis is to explore the evolution over time and assess the impact of growth / decline of wages to consumption. The theoretical part describes the brief development of theories of consumption and also explains the basic concepts related to the topic. The practical part is based on the information mentioned in the theoretical part. It focuses on the relationship between selected macroeconomic variables and household consumption. Keynesian consumption function for the current and real prices is derived using regression analysis. The hypothesis, which assumes that the change in the average wage leads to a change in consumption, was proved. The second hypothesis, which assumes a reduction in consumption due to an increase in unemployment, could not be confirmed. Household consumption has been reduced in all monitored EU countries due to economic crisis.
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Vliv dotačního programu Zelená úsporám na spotřebu elektrické energie a plynu v ČR
Václavská, Michaela
This diploma thesis focuses on the influence of Green savings programme on the consumption of electricity and gas in Czech Republic. The influence of Green savings programme is examined during the period 2009--2013. The prediction of future development of the consumption of electricity and gas based on gained results is made for the period 2014--2019. This diploma thesis also focuses on the influence of Green saving programme on areas containing production of electricity from renewable sources, emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and then it focuses on the economic aspects as expenses of household on energy, employment within construction industry, inflation and gross domestic income of Czech Republic.
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Habit Formation in Consumption: A Meta-Analysis
Havránek, Tomáš ; Rusnák, Marek ; Sokolova, Anna
We examine 567 estimates of habit formation from 69 studies published in peer-reviewed journals. In contrast to previous results for most fields of empirical economics, we find no publication bias in the literature. The median estimated strength of habit formation equals 0.4, but the estimates vary widely both within and across studies. We use Bayesian model averaging to assign a pattern to this variance while taking into account model uncertainty. Studies using micro data report consistently smaller estimates than macro studies: 0.1 vs. 0.6 on average. The difference remains large when we control for 21 other study aspects, such as data frequency, geographical coverage, variable definition, estimation approach, and publication characteristics. We also find that estimates of external habit formation tend to be substantially larger than those of internal habits, that evidence for habits weakens when researchers use higher data frequencies, and that estimates differ systematically across countries.
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Comparison of car transport in rural and urban areas from the aspect of environment
HORKÁ, Dominika
The aim of this thesis is comparison of the traffic consumption in three selected European countries. Analysis and comparison of traffic intensity in rural and urban areas of the Czech Republic, Germany and the Netherlands. The thesis is focused on the evaluation of the diversity of rural and urban traffic consumption and it asseses the relationships between transport and the environment. Hypotheses are verified by analysis of carbon dioxide emissions in the passenger car, public and air transport (data from the project GILDED).
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