Browsing Kvalifikační práce by Defence Date
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Essays on Health Economics and Health Policy
(Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta sociálních věd, 2020)Date of defense: 13. 5. 2020Dissertation Thesis: Essays on Health Economics and Health Policy Author: PhDr. Jana Votápková Advisor: doc. PhDr. Martin Gregor, Ph.D. Academic year: 2019/2020 This dissertation thesis is a collection of three applied ... -
Health Security - Role of the Security Sector in Combating the 2014 Ebola Outbreak in Sierra Leone
(Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta sociálních věd, 2020)Date of defense: 5. 3. 2020This study assessed the role of the security sector in combating the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone. In achieving the overall goal of the study, the assessment broadly covered the following: examined the national ... -
Strategická kultura České republiky
(Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta sociálních věd, 2020)Date of defense: 3. 3. 2020Jan Beneš Strategic Culture of the Czech Republic Abstract The aim of the dissertation is to define in a complex manner the strategic culture of the Czech Republic. Strategic culture is at first analysed as a conceptual ... -
Essays on labour force and its productivity
(Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta sociálních věd, 2020)Date of defense: 19. 2. 2020This doctoral thesis presents four articles analysing labour force and its productivity. It utilises simulation modelling to assess the impacts of demographic changes, migration or shifts in productivity determinants on ... -
Rola židovských kultúrnych sprostredkovateľov v pražských demokratických médiách v medzivojnovom období
(Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta sociálních věd, 2020)Date of defense: 7. 2. 2020This diploma thesis deals with the situation of the Jewish minority in the first Czechoslovak Republic concentrating on Prague as a unique case of the coexistence of the Czech, German and Jewish people. The aim of the ... -
Paradiplomacie českých krajů vůči německým spolkovým zemím
(Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta sociálních věd, 2020)Date of defense: 7. 2. 2020This diploma thesis deals with paradiplomacy between Czech regions and German federal states. The term paradiplomacy refers to the diplomacy of the lower territorial administrative units. Specifically, this work deals with ... -
Role investigativní žurnalistiky v demokratické společnosti na příkladu Güntera Wallraffa
(Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta sociálních věd, 2020)Date of defense: 7. 2. 2020This diploma thesis deals with the topic of investigative journalism in a democratic society, on the example of Günter Wallraff, a pioneer of German investigative journalists. His work and methods are controversial and ... -
Natural gas in the EU: An empirical study of price determinants in the age of blooming shale gas and LNG exports
(Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta sociálních věd, 2020)Date of defense: 5. 2. 20201 Abstract This paper forecasts day-ahead prices of Title Transfer Facility Gas Hub, Europe's most liquid gas market, by employing a comprehensive list of autoregressive and regionalized fundamental variables. Using a ... -
Impact of investors' mood on European stock markets
(Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta sociálních věd, 2020)Date of defense: 5. 2. 2020This thesis investigates into relationship of mood and stock markets. As proxies for mood we selected Daylight Savings Time changes, Lunar cycles and football results. Any abnormal returns on related days would present a ... -
The Stagnation of Productivity in the Czech Republic: Does the Country Suffer from Baumol's Cost Disease?
(Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta sociálních věd, 2020)Date of defense: 5. 2. 2020This thesis examines the impact of diverging productivity gains across indus- tries in the Czech Republic and identifies their effect on other economic indi- cators. Using methods standard in the literature about Baumol's ... -
Tax havens' financial secrecy and its development
(Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta sociálních věd, 2020)Date of defense: 5. 2. 2020Tax havens and global financial secrecy have become a major issue in the modern world. In order to effectively increase transparency across the world, it is important to know how the secrecy is developing over time. Financial ... -
Effects of political connections on public procurement, evidence from Slovakia
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The Impact of the EU-South Korea Free Trade Agreement on EU's Exports
(Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta sociálních věd, 2020)Date of defense: 5. 2. 20201 Abstract To support exports, the European Union (EU) and South Korea concluded the EU-South Korea free trade agreement (FTA) in 2010. An objective of the FTA was to reduce or remove barriers to international trade. This ... -
Fiscal policy in real-time: Role of growth surprises
(Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta sociálních věd, 2020)Date of defense: 5. 2. 2020This thesis explores the reliability of real-time estimates of the cyclically-adjusted primary balances. Using fixed effects and weighted least squares models, we show that the real-time estimates are systematically biased ... -
Hedging with interest rate derivatives: Estimation of hedge ratio & hedging effectiveness
(Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta sociálních věd, 2020)Date of defense: 5. 2. 2020The thesis investigates the effectiveness of several hedging strategies and inspects whether advanced econometric models contribute to lower portfolio risk and offer advantages over simple constant hedges. Focused on the ... -
Determinants of Non-Performing Loans in Eurozone and Non-Eurozone Countries
(Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta sociálních věd, 2020)Date of defense: 5. 2. 2020This paper represents an empirical analysis of the determinants of Non- performing loans in Eurozone and Non- Eurozone countries. We contribute to the literature by including a comprehensive literature review and examining ... -
Volatility and Skewness Spillover Effects: Multiresolution Analysis
(Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta sociálních věd, 2020)Date of defense: 5. 2. 2020The thesis investigates volatility and skewness spillover effects among seven world stock indices and WTI oil under the assumption of the presence of heterogeneous investors. The data sample covers the period from January ... -
Obchodování s lidmi: role EU v přístupech k problému v ČR a Belgii
(Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta sociálních věd, 2020)Date of defense: 4. 2. 2020This master thesis aims to unveil and examine the interplay between different actors in the fight against human trafficking. These are: the European Union, the Czech Republic and Belgium. A content (text) analysis of the ... -
Mediální gramotnost a kritické myšlení u dospívajících
(Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta sociálních věd, 2020)Date of defense: 4. 2. 2020ZVELEBILOVÁ, Kristýna. Mediální gramotnost a kritické myšlení u dospívajících. Praha, 2020. 131 s. Diplomová práce (Mgr.). Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta sociálních věd, Institut komunikačních studií a žurnalistiky. Katedra ... -
Strategie prosazování Čechů na pozice vedoucích delegací EU
(Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta sociálních věd, 2020)Date of defense: 4. 2. 2020This diploma thesis deals with strategies of promoting Czechs as ambassadors of the EU (HoD) since the launch of the European External Action Service to the present. The main research goal of this thesis is to find out ...