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Indebtedness of statutory cities
KUKRÁLOVÁ, Lucie
The thesis deals with the indebtedness of statutory cities in the Czech Republic and its development. It contains the characteristics of the types of repayable financial support, defines the terms related to the regulation of indebtedness, and describes the risks that arise from high indebtedness. The statutory cities and their management are also described. A large part of the work is also devoted to the description of legislative rules, their development, and their effectiveness. The practical part deals with defining the debt of statutory cities, determining its size, structure, and dynamics. It also compares the indebtedness of selected statutory cities according to debt instruments on the basis of their solvency and compliance with the rules of budgetary responsibility. Based on the results, it can be summarized that the share of statutory cities in public debt has been less than 5% in recent years and the share of municipalities has also remained below 10%. In general, we can say that the debt of municipalities, as well as statutory cities, has been developing favorably in recent years, is declining, and still appears to be negligible compared to the total public debt. The share of public debt in GDP is also kept below 60%, and the Czech Republic also complies with the Maastricht criterion. The statutory cities of Prague, Liberec and Olomouc appear to be the most problematic. Olomouc and Liberec have even exceeded the 60% threshold since the introduction of the budgetary responsibility rule in 2017.
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Proposal for the Czech Statutory City Districts Autonomy Index
Hála, Jaroslav ; Jüptner, Petr (advisor) ; Huňady, Martin (referee)
Czech statutory cities are enabled by The Municipal Law to divide their territory into sub- municipal units. This competency has been used by seven Czech statutory cities, which established city districts. Cities had entrusted their sub-municipal units with different amount of authority and autonomy. Firstly, the factors of sub-municipal autonomy are being identified. Significant are: the volume of finances, which city districts operate with; their access to external grants; the scope of policies and public services in which they are being included; competence to establish its own organisational units; influence on city legislation and representation in the institutions of the statutory city. Based on the factors the sub-municipal autonomy index is being proposed. The index is applicable on the seven statutory cities with their city districts. The index constructed from these factors attributes sub-municipal units of Brno and Ostrava with the highest amount of autonomy, and units of Ústí and Labem and Pardubice with the lowest amount of autonomy. Based on index values and interviews with actors of sub-municipal politics are the cities of Brno, Ostrava, Plzeň and Liberec being labelled as "truly decentralized" and the cities of Ústí and Labem and Pardubice as "rather deconcentrated".
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