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Construction of the Single European Railway Area: Reforms of railway sector in the Czech Republic 2004-2014.
Volf, Jaromír ; Nigrin, Tomáš (advisor) ; Šlosarčík, Ivo (referee)
This thesis Construction of the Single European Railway Area: Reforms of railway sector in the Czech Republic 2004-2014 deals with the europeanisation of the Czech railway policies through the lens of four subjects - government, regional governments, Czech railway and private railway companies. The work puts the issue of the European railway reform into the perspective of the concept of network industries liberalisation. The Czech Republic joined the European Union in 2004 and therefore had no chance in influencing its foundation. The thesis attempts to investigate the ways in which the EU affected the Czech railway environment and, simultaneously, if some kind strengthening of actors supporting liberalisation took place. The work concluded that although these actors have been strengthened, the railway market in passenger transport hasn't been created. As the work demonstrates, this was caused mainly by insufficient institutional and adjustment ability of the state that hasn't been able to successfully finish any public tenders. In the regions, the situation is similar - in 2009, a ten- year memorandum on operating of regional transport by Czech railways has been passed. Besides, each region has a different transport policy and the government will probably try to handle.
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Construction of the Single European Railway Area: Reforms of railway sector in the Czech Republic 2004-2014.
Volf, Jaromír ; Nigrin, Tomáš (advisor) ; Šlosarčík, Ivo (referee)
This thesis Construction of the Single European Railway Area: Reforms of railway sector in the Czech Republic 2004-2014 deals with the europeanisation of the Czech railway policies through the lens of four subjects - government, regional governments, Czech railway and private railway companies. The work puts the issue of the European railway reform into the perspective of the concept of network industries liberalisation. The Czech Republic joined the European Union in 2004 and therefore had no chance in influencing its foundation. The thesis attempts to investigate the ways in which the EU affected the Czech railway environment and, simultaneously, if some kind strengthening of actors supporting liberalisation took place. The work concluded that although these actors have been strengthened, the railway market in passenger transport hasn't been created. As the work demonstrates, this was caused mainly by insufficient institutional and adjustment ability of the state that hasn't been able to successfully finish any public tenders. In the regions, the situation is similar - in 2009, a ten- year memorandum on operating of regional transport by Czech railways has been passed. Besides, each region has a different transport policy and the government will probably try to handle.
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Trans-European energy networks - selected issues
Kočí, Luboš ; Němcová, Ingeborg (advisor) ; Vošta, Milan (referee)
This thesis deals with Trans-European energy networks (TEN-E), a program of the EU which has recently undergone significant changes. The main objective of this thesis is to capture the impact of activities of The EU in the framework of TEN-E and energy policy on the status and development of Europe's energy infrastructure and apply the findings to energy networks of the Czech Republic. The thesis is divided into four chapters. The first one deals with network industries and their economic specifics. The second chapter deals with energy policy of the EU and development of the internal energy market. The third chapter focuses on TEN-E program and final chapter brings the issues of Czech energy networks.
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Analýza trhu poštovních služeb v České republice se zaměřením na Českou poštu, s.p. od roku 1993 do současnosti
Jestříbek, Jan ; Chmelová, Pavla (advisor) ; Pavelek, Petr (referee)
This Bachelor thesis describes the development of Česká pošta at the postal services market. It compares its development with that of Deutsche Post and offers recommendations for future development. The theoretical part of this thesis analyzes the public utilities problematic including possibilities of liberalization. Economic theories present individual components of public utilities and help to understand them. In addition to that, the transformation process and its development in the Czech Republic are described. Initially, the empirical part of the thesis focuses on the development of the legislative as well as the institutional framework in the postal services area. Later on it developed into a full liberalization of this market. Building on that, the development of Česká pošta's economic activities is described, which shows a steady decrease in the income of postal commissions combined with an increase in expenses on maintaining the current network. Investigation of the Deutsche Post's system reveals a different approach of providing postal services and running their subsidiaries. The final part discusses a potential future development of Česká pošta and suggests a shift in how they run their subsidiaries to provide additional financial reserves to the company. Furthermore, an amendment of the Postal Law is examined, that should allow Česká pošta to gain financial support by the government.
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Analysis of the competitive mobile market in the Czech Republic
Honzáková, Tereza ; Zeman, Jiří (advisor) ; Filipová, Alena (referee)
The work deals with the effectiveness of competitive mobile market in the Czech Republic. It assesses the behavior of mobile operators on the Czech market and its impact on end users. The work is divided into theoretical and practical part. The first part deals with the description of the telecommunications sector as a network industry showing features of imperfect competition. Then there are the institutions responsible for regulating provided mobile telecommunications market and their scope. The second part deals with specific economic values achieved by individual operators, and then their characteristic strategies for those operating in poorly competitive market. There is made an order in final conclusion for efficiently competitive environment.
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Regulation of access electronic communications networks in the Czech Republic and its impact on the industry development
Sekaninová, Renáta ; Ševčík, Miroslav (advisor) ; Munzi, Tomáš (referee)
The thesis deals with the asymmetric ex-ante regulation applied in the electronic com-munications sector in order to strengthen the competitive ability of alternative operators at the expense of incumbent operators' competitiveness with the aim of reinforcing effective competition in the electronic communications markets. The author is concer-ned with the regulatory instrument entailing an obligation on the fixed incumbent opera-tors to open their access networks to other operators. This is called Local Loop Unbund-ling (LLU). The thesis assesses regulatory impacts on the Czech electronic communi-cations market. The market development in the Czech Republic certified the negative regulatory effect on the fixed alternative operators'motivation to build their own access infrastructure. The author tries to find the dismotivating elements of the present-day LLU regulatory form by means of the Czech LLU market analysis. The author adverts to the undesirable regulatory effect on both alternative operators'and incumbent opera-tors'investment motivation. The thesis offers reasoning why the pro-competitive regula-tory policy (inhibiting investments necessary for the sector development) is not appro-priate.
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Regulation and public projects of internet access in Czech republic
Horák, Ondřej ; Ševčík, Miroslav (advisor) ; Císař, Jan (referee)
Práce analyzuje trh internetového připojení a jeho regulaci v České republice. Po zhodnocení vývoje tohoto síťového odvětví a jeho regulace od roku 1989 se autor zaměřil na popsání a analýzu specifik české struktury trhu internetového připojení. V poslední části práce se autor pokusil představit model vysvětlující jeden z pohledů na neefektivnost veřejného financování nebo dotování projektů internetového připojení. S pomocí tohoto modelu a po analýze ekonomických charakteristik statku internetového připojení autor došel k závěru, že neexistuje důvod pro veřejného financování nebo dotování této služby i přesto, že je internetové připojení spojeno se silnou síťovou externalitou. Na příkladu veřejného projektu internetového připojení v MČ Praha 5 bylo prokázáno, že v krátkém období jsou sice soukromé náklady mnohem vyšší než náklady společenské, nicméně v delším období začnou, z důvodu zaostávání technologie, růst oportunitní náklady času jednotlivých uživatelů a společenské náklady převýší náklady soukromé.
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