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Media Image of the Fu-Fu Cult
Růžičková, Martina ; Santos, Luis Artemio De Los (referee) ; Stratil, Václav (advisor)
In an interconnected world of alone standing individuals, artistic individuality is in many cases expressed through attempt to question culture of branded corporations and thus replace it with artist’s independent mind that is able to create works as commentaries and alone standing, “independent” products. To create post-ironic individuals, individuals as “highly diversified” brands. So long they’ve dreamed about wide spread and legitimization of their work, their art. This was partly done by overwhelming their followers’ social media feeds.
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Determining influence of new construction on market value of nearby building sites
Daňhel, Petr ; Mikš, Lubomír (referee) ; Dočkal, Pavel (referee) ; Bradáč, Albert (advisor)
New building projects make changes in infrastructure and it is the reason of changing some of the characteristics of pricing building plots. For example: transport accessibility and connection to utilities. Side-effect of large-scale residential development is rising the price of land by speculation, because the expensive new buildings are creating places of "Good address". New construction pushing the boundaries of built-up area and in anticipation of further construction will begin trading at higher prices. The aim is to provide a method of determining of new construction on market value of nearby building sites. The project will be primarily focused on building sites as defined by law. Determination of the impact will be made by a comparative method. As comparative examples will be used traded, valued or offered real estates in locations with some new housing constructions (e.g. cadaster Bystrc, Komín, Sadova). The result of the work will be usable for real estate valuation: 1. Methodology for correction of index of variations to effects of new construction. 2. Methodology for correction of index of variations to speculative component of price.
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Futures Trading of Commodities as a Retail Trader
Burša, Petr ; Hrabec, Vojtěch (referee) ; Rejnuš, Oldřich (advisor)
The goal of this thesis “Futures trading of commodities as a retail trader” is creation of investment suggestion, based on analysis of possibilities, markets and factors influencing the price. In the first part are defined basic terms and information for better orientation on the futures commodity market. In the next part are analysis of the major commodity markets, groups of commodities and detailed analysis of interest commodities – gold and silver. The last third part of the thesis engage in creation of strategy for trading of commodity futures on gold and silver, which is the basic element for the final investment suggestion.
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Trading of Electricity in the Current Conditions of the Czech Republic
Lomjanský, Michal ; Kacina, Michal (referee) ; Rejnuš, Oldřich (advisor)
This diploma thesis deals with trading of electricity in the current conditions of the Czech Republic. First it defines the theoretical and legal aspects of the electricity market and introduces several basic terms related to the given topic such as producer, electricity dealer, end user etc. Then it analyses selected areas of an electricity dealer’s activities directed at optimization of his/her business strategy concerning electrical energy trading in the current conditions of the Czech energy market.
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Cusp catastrophe theory: Application to the housing market
Kořínek, Vojtěch ; Kukačka, Jiří (advisor) ; Nevrla, Matěj (referee)
The bachelor's thesis applies the stochastic cusp catastrophe model to the housing market of the United States. Weekly data over the period from 2007 to 2017 are used. The current catastrophe theory literature related to the housing market is reviewed, the models found are assessed and expanded. Specifically, we have identified three deficiencies of the catastrophe models applied to housing market in the current literature and our contribution lies in the elimination of these deficiencies. In order to satisfy the constant volatility assumption of the model, the state variable is normalized by the estimated volatility derived from GARCH. Furthermore, multiple control variables are added to the model to represent the activity of fundamentalists and chartists. The results suggest that the cusp catastrophe model fits the data better than the linear and logistic models. The normalization of the state variable improves the model performance while the introduction of the additional control variables does not produce better results. Keywords Housing market, catastrophe theory, stochastic cusp catastrophe model, hous- ing bubble, real estate, fundamental investors, speculation. 1
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Cusp catastrophe theory: Application to the housing market
Kořínek, Vojtěch ; Kukačka, Jiří (advisor) ; Nevrla, Matěj (referee)
The bachelor's thesis applies the stochastic cusp catastrophe model to the housing market of the United States. Weekly data over the period from 2007 to 2017 are used. The current catastrophe theory literature related to the housing market is reviewed, the models found are assessed and expanded. Specifically, we have identified three deficiencies of the catastrophe models applied to housing market in the current literature and our contribution lies in the elimination of these deficiencies. In order to satisfy the constant volatility assumption of the model, the state variable is normalized by the estimated volatility derived from GARCH. Furthermore, multiple control variables are added to the model to represent the activity of fundamentalists and chartists. The results suggest that the cusp catastrophe model fits the data better than the linear and logistic models. The normalization of the state variable improves the model performance while the introduction of the additional control variables does not produce better results. Keywords Housing market, catastrophe theory, stochastic cusp catastrophe model, hous- ing bubble, real estate, fundamental investors, speculation. 1
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Futures Trading of Commodities as a Retail Trader
Burša, Petr ; Hrabec, Vojtěch (referee) ; Rejnuš, Oldřich (advisor)
The goal of this thesis “Futures trading of commodities as a retail trader” is creation of investment suggestion, based on analysis of possibilities, markets and factors influencing the price. In the first part are defined basic terms and information for better orientation on the futures commodity market. In the next part are analysis of the major commodity markets, groups of commodities and detailed analysis of interest commodities – gold and silver. The last third part of the thesis engage in creation of strategy for trading of commodity futures on gold and silver, which is the basic element for the final investment suggestion.
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Sensitivity of Oil Prices to Economic Indicators
Cinert, Vojtěch ; Stádník, Bohumil (advisor) ; Mazáček, David (referee)
The thesis deals with the analysis of the oil market with emphasis on the period from 2010 to May 2017. The aim of the thesis is to test the sensitivity of the oil price to the selected fundamental indicators and trading positions of the traders according to CFTC data. The work, in addition to the theoretical introduction, contains information on key fundamentals such as US oil production, the process of publishing reports on the state of oil stocks in the US, and the process of publishing reports on oil market traders' positions and subsequent data analysis. It confirmed that the price of oil correlates significantly with traders' positions, but the Granger test suggested that the change in the price of oil is causally affecting the position of traders and not vice versa.
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Analysis of investment and speculative opportunities in a trading card game
Golan, Tomáš ; Brada, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Kováč, Michal (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on the trading card game Magic: The Gathering as an environment for viable alternative investments with parallels to traditional financial instruments. It consists of three parts. The game is first introduced in the context of trading card games in general along with its selected rules and terms that are important for investing. The second part describes in details its market, supply and demand, which is crucial for the last, practical part presenting specific investment and speculative strategies for making profit through the game. Although the comprehensive rules of the game itself are exceptionally complicated, a reader should be able to apply some of these strategies without any additional knowledge.
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Speculative versus Fair Price of Crude Oil
Šlechta, Pavel ; Teplý, Petr (advisor) ; Serdarevič, Goran (referee)
The thesis deals with the topic of speculation on the crude oil market. This topic has been frequently discussed in association with the price hikes in 2008, but since the oil price has recently repeatedly reached levels over USD 100, the topic is still very present. In our thesis we analyze the connection between the increasing open interest on the New York Mercantile Exchange crude oil futures market, the supply and demand factors for the crude oil and the crude oil price. Based on an error correction model analysis of monthly observations between 1994 and 2011, we show how an increase in the open interest, which is currently already comprised by the non-commercial traders by one half, can lead to a persistent increase in the crude oil prices. We believe it is the risk premium on the market which stands for the long-run equilibrium of the open interest and prices. Such a risk premium on the market of crude oil could explain the part of the increase in prices which could have not been captured by the simple supply and demand, as for example the concern about the Hubbert's peak oil. We also test whether the oil price volatility increases the open interest on the market, which would mean that the price volatility could attract more speculative traders. Although we find Granger causality, we cannot...
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