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Analysis of household debt in the Czech Republic and Austria and comparison with the European Union
Raková, Zdeňka ; Dvořák, Petr (advisor) ; Prokop, Martin (referee)
Constantly increasing household debt is becoming frequently discussed topic. The main aim of this thesis is to analyse the development and structure of household debt in the Czech Republic and its comparison with household debt in Austria and with households in other EU countries and Eurozone, respectively. The analysis of sources and laws connected with this issue and especially analysis of regularly reported data of noted countries serve to achieve the aim of the thesis. The first part of the thesis is focusing on definition of terms related to this issue such as credit, loan, mortgage loan, regular and bridge loan, consumer credit, leasing and APR. The second part deals with analysis of debts in the Czech Republic and Austria. First, the size of total debt is examined and then the attention is paid to development and structure of debt from different points of view (creditors, purpose, currency and maturity). The last part discusses the position of the Czech Republic and Austria from the point of view of other households within the EU countries and Eurozone, respectively.
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