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This bachelor thesis provides information about the economic development of Australia, with an emphasis on the first decade of the 21st century. The first part of the paper introduces the historical development of the Australian economy from the first European settlement for microeconomic reform in the late 20th century. The second chapter focuses on the current Australian economy, explains why Australia was not in a technical recession in 2009 and provides a SWOT analysis of Australia. The third part describes current Czech-Australian trade relations and potential deeper cooperation between these two countries.

This thesis analyzes EU Sport Policy and implicates this policy in some aspects on the Czech Republic. Thesis is divided into three main parts -- in the first part there are described theoretical approaches to the sport and the relationship between sport and public diplomacy. In the second part there is an analysis of the EU Sport Policy itself -- its development, the most important documents connected with sport, with an overlap into future. The third, practical, part describes development and specificity of Czech sport, analyzes the problem of financing in Czech sport and shows the connection of european and Czech dimension in sport. The third part also discusses, how could possibly the EU Sport Policy help to the Czech Sport Policy, or how could the Czech traditional sport background help the EU Sport Policy.

This paper contains information about access to tuition of programming mostly at uni-versities. The aim of this thesis is to survey courses of programming at public and private Czech universities, including comparison with some foreign universities. The paper contains an overview of used tools during entrance courses of programming for beginners at universities' environment. There is also an overview of used methods in teaching information technologies. The outcome is useful for schools and students as well to compare different styles of education among universities.

The primary aim of this paper is to compare the issues of financial security of individual projects implemented under cross-border cooperation between the Czech Republic and the Free State of Saxony. The theoretical part is devoted to the characteristics of individual species of European cross-border cooperation, its history and individual Euroregions. The paper is focused on cross-border cooperation of the Czech Republic, historical development, characteristics of Euroregion and specifications of cross-border cooperation programs. The part of the theoretical part is devoted to issue of financial security projects in terms of the contracting authoritys legal personality. The application part of the thesis is responsible for several tested hypotheses. Basic research method represents a survey. The group of respondents is represented by participants selected cross-border cooperation. The survey includes subjective opinion of each participant to achieve a comprehensive insight into the studied problematic. Work brings valuable insight from the perspective of direct participants. It works with personal experience and thus offers a unique analysis of the factors that may affect the efficiency of cross-border cooperation significantly. The analysis shows that civic associations are increasingly faced with the complications of financial security and they are exposed to a higher financial costs in comparison with regions and villages. The policy of cross boarder cooperation is positively evaluated by participants. The survey also shows that despite negative personal experience with exchange differences the participants do not save themselves by any insurance.

This thesis expands the level of knowledge of Czech written papers in area of quantitative comparison of pension systems. Methodology of the paper is taken from Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index (MMGPI) model which comprehensively describes entire topic of pension systems. Distinct feature of the thesis is that it does not focus on describing the system itself however it examines it functioning and performance in areas of adequacy, sustainability and integrity. The goal of the thesis is to apply the same methodology and data sources as the MMGPI in order to incorporate Czech pension system. Analysis proves higher than average performance of Czech system in comparison with 18 countries of MMGPI. Comparison across over 30 indicators highlights pros and cons of Czech pension system. Thesis then recommends which features of Czech system should remain and on the example of best performing countries discuss possible improvements.

This paper analyzes development of the labor market and unemployment in transition from a centrally planned economy to a market economy system in the Czech Republic. At the beginning this paper, there is an explanation of the terms related to the theme and analysis of the situation on the labor market before 1990. The main part of the paper presents an analysis of the impact of the transition process to the unemployment, by extension, the entire labor market. It also focuses on the effectiveness of the applied state employment policy. The hypothesis, i. e. effective employment policy of the state was not a main cause of the low rate of unemployment in the transition period was confirmed. The main causes of low unemployment were mainly demographic, regional and historical factors. State employment policy had marginal effect on the unemployment rate.

This bachelor thesis is concerned with problems of economic crisis of Greece a its impacts on trade with Czech Republic. The paper gives summary of development of basic macroeconomic data and studies the causes of origins of the crisis, which be traced back to the 1980's. Special attention is given to longterm indebtedness of the country and sustainability of the debt. Further the paper describes the course of the crisis and analyses the impacts of the economy of Greece and the trade with Czech Republic. It focuses on the most important sectors of economy as industy, transport, tourism and agriculture. The paper provides a list of measures, which were undertaken by Greece and European Union to improve the situation. Among these counts for example reforms, government cuts and financial aid from EU and IMF. Political environment of Greece and problems of grey economy and corruption are discussed. Paper also deals with development of bonds and ratings. In the final chapter the impact of crisis on trade with Czech Republic is evaluated.

The paper analyses the state of the world's bio product market and the Czech Republic's position in the market. It discusses basic bio product market information and its historic roots. The paper examines in detail the production and consumption of bio products, especially bio-eatables in the carefully selected array of sample countries. The section focusing on the Czech Republic demonstrates the structural and consumer development of bio products. Additionally, the Czech market is then compared with the world market and the factors that affect the production and consumption are highlighted. The examination of the raw data from both the world and the Czech market supports the first hypothesis that there is an increasing growth pattern in the bio product market worldwide. Second hypothesis focusing on the demand for bio products in the Czech market was not affirmed after careful scrutiny of the Czech bio product market. With regards to the elevated bio product prices and consumer's distrust in their quality, the bio product demand in the recent years had suffered from a decreasing trend.

Internal migration is one of the possible ways to reduce unemployment within the country. The aim of this paper is to compare the volume of internal migration between NUTS II regions in the Czech Republic and Austria and to try to identify factors that act to the migration flows. The results show that Austria is characterized by increased internal migration, international migration, as well as commuting to work in another region. Since the Czech Republic all these indicators lagging behind, it is necessary to determine whether the internal migration of both states is influenced by the same factors. Specifically, the paper examined the relationship of interregional migration and the average disposable income, unemployment rate, number of vacancies, the size and distance of regions, using the method of multiple linear regression analysis. While in the Czech Republic the internal migration is motivated by economic factors, in Austria, the relationship of migration and selected variables was not confirmed. The paper finds that residents of Austria are more active in terms of migration, but this move has obviously other than economic incentives.

This work is focused on the taxation of wages in the Czech Republic and in the Slovakia. The paper targets the different approaches to personal income tax in both states. The aim of the work is to compare the taxation of wages in the Czech and Slovak Republics. The comparison is illustrated at few different family situations and results are compared by effective tax rate subsequently. The paper includes descriptive research methods, comparison of results of own examples and comparative analysis of the obtained data and their comparison in spreadsheets. Finally the results of the paper is that single taxpayer has got lower tax rate of wages in the Slovak Republic and for families with one or more children is the lower tax rate on wages in the Czech Republic.

The aim of this paper is to identify common and differing opinions of the governments of the Visegrad countries and introducing the character of their cooperation in case of convergence of interests. The paper seeks to answer the following research question: In what areas of current European policy are the interests of the Visegrad countries similar and in which do they differ? Do Visegrad countries cooperate in case their interests are similar? What is the current situation in the V4 countries and what are the prospects for the adoption of a common currency?

The Czech Republic went through a very interesting development in terms of foreign trade relations. Aforementioned development resulted in accession to the EU and deepening of trade interconnection with other EU member states. This paper analyses quantitative and structural changes in trade between the Czech Republic and its most important partners in the context of the global economic recession. The paper itself is divided into three parts. The first part presents the development of foreign trade relations of the Czech Republic. The point of the second part is to make one familiar with the context of the global financial crisis and the global economic recession. The third, analytical part aims at trade in goods (focused on territorial and commodity structure), trade in services (focused on the ratio between values of trade in goods and trade in services) and flows of foreign direct investments (focused on industrial and territorial structure). Also, the paper analyses the impact of cyclical fluctuations on growth rates of Czech imports and exports in general and makes a comparison of both.

The aim of the thesis is to provide an analysis of Czech and Austrian concept of pro-export policy and pointing out common but also individual characteristics. The fundamental method of work is analytical and comparative method, involving the processing of domestic and foreign sources. The essence of this paper is a critical evaluation of both systems and outlining possible scenarios of further development of Czech pro-export policy. Crucial to this topic is getting familiar with basic concepts of trade promotion, or supranational regulatory framework, which describes the thesis in the initial section. Throughout the text is further discussed the importance of exports for each country, the formation of pro-export policies and institutional support for exports. The end of the thesis is devoted to the comparison of pro-export policies of the countries concerned, the paper also deals with comparison of institutional bases and the goals and priorities of both systems of supporting exports. The output of the thesis is to evaluate the pro-export policies of the Czech Republic and Austria and suggestion of improvements of the support for Czech exports.

The aim of this paper is analysis of the German pension reform and evaluation of its benefits, as a source of inspiration for Czech pension reform. With the ageing of population grows in the world a need for pension reform. Germany solved these phenomena on the beginning of this millennium, by increasing the role of secure ourselves in old-age with conservation of importance of compulsory retirement insurance. The first part of this paper deals with the theoretical introduction of pension systems, especially introduction of historical and theoretical models, which create different variations of pension systems in different countries. The next part of this paper analyzes the pension system in Germany, in the context of the modern history and already taken pension reform, including the attitude of the German government towards the implementation of the reform. After that paper analyzes the current Czech pension system and in the end compares these two pension systems in order to find inspiration for Czech pension reform.

This paper analyses foreign direct investment (FDI), their impact and trends in the context of the world economy and then as a case study of the Czech Republic. The first chapter studies the theoretical foundations of FDI and impact on source and destination countries. The second chapter summarizes basic trends, territorial and sectoral structure and evolution of the legal framework. The third part is a case study where the Czech Republic is put into the context of FDI, followed by analysis of its impact on the balance of payment, employment and interaction with local companies. The main outcome of the paper is that FDI has had a positive influence on employment, but investment incentives have focused too much on unskilled labour, which will become uncompetitive relative to other countries. A big risk is also the burden on the balance of payments.

This paper focuses on introduction of Romania as a potential outbound tourism destination for Czech Republic. The aim of this paper is to present the real picture of Romania, pointing out some unjust prejudice against this country which can be found in Czech Republic as well as pointing out the real insufficiencies of Romania in the field of tourism which are often overlooked. This paper also contains results of on-line questionnaire which may help to create a better picture of how Romania is being perceived by the Czechs today and which are the possibilities for future developments in this area.

This paper uses data about 3,640 matches played in the seasons 2000/01-2009/10 to explain individual match attendance of the top Czech ice hockey competition -- the Extraliga. Some interesting results are that fans decide whether to attend based on the detailed information about the home team, but use just the easily observable information about the away team; that a match having no impact on the final season outcome is much less attended; that televising a match decreases attendances of all matches played on the same day, but there is no negative next-day effect; that both very good and very bad weather decreases attendance; and that if two home matches are played in a short time period, their attendance is lower with likely higher impact on the second match. Substitution of ice hockey with soccer is investigated on several different levels -- while ice hockey and soccer are definitely long-term substitutes, there are mixed results for same-day substitution. Modernization of ice hockey arenas is identified as the key factor behind the almost 20% attendance growth in the analyzed period. This paper also presents a new realistic method of modeling seasonal uncertainty based on Monte Carlo simulation that does not rely on ex post information.

This thesis addresses the subject of environmental Kuznets curve (EKC). EKC is a model expressing the relationship of economic development and environmental damage. The chosen topic is relevant in connection with ongoing discussions relating to global warming and the impact of human activity on this phenomenon. The concept would give us many clues to the future development of pollution not only in developing countries. The paper examines whether research into the relationship of economic development the country and harming the environment makes sense. The paper also seeks to contribute to confirm or refute the concept of the EKC for specific situations. Specifically, the EKC model validation for selected indicators of environmental pollution in the Czech Republic. The main methods of work are research of literature and empirical analysis. Searches of papers and other publications relating to the concept of EKC is shown in the first part. The second part is devoted to empirical testing EKC for various pollutants in the Example of the Czech Republic. Main result of a literature research is that empirical validation of EKC model makes sense. The work with results of those researches has to be very careful. Main output of own research is verifying the validity of EKC model for selected air pollutants in Czech Republic.

The paper deals mainly with the market research in the Czech Republic but also contains a part which deals with the market research in Czechoslovakia. The first part of the paper is theoretical, contains the basic theoretical characteristic of the market research-its definition, its goal, its origin, selected types of research, selected methods of research and the code of the market research. The second part is concerned with the market research from the period before World War II until the end of the last millenium. This part focuses on researchers, themes of researches used methods and on the role of the association SIMAR within the context of economic, and political background and the technical progress. The last part of the paper contains further development of the market research in the Czech Republic until present-again in the context of the economic and political background and the technical progress, and also an outline of the possible future trends in the market research in the Czech Republic are involved in this part.

This diploma paper deals with a description and an analysis of the position of the Czech Republic and its regions in the field of the Congress Tourism. The first part of the paper contains a theoretic definition of the Congress Tourism. The another part devotes itself to the position of the Congress Tourism in the world and there are international organizations operating in the area of the Congress Tourism mentioned, and also a comparison of individual countries, or more precisely cities, by the medium of international statistics presented. Furthermore, there is a position of the Czech Republic as a whole described, most important organizations specified and a position of the regions based on the data of the Czech Statistical Office outlined. The last part of the diploma paper contains a description of the conditions for the Congress Tourism of the individual regions of the Czech Republic. At the conclusion, there are knowledges from the previous parts summarized.

The purpose of this paper is to describe and evaluate the development of mutual relations of the Czech Republic and Germany from the year 2004 to the present. The relations have long-lasting tradition and this state also belongs to the most important business partners of our country. The cohesion of the czech economy with the german one has a lot of positives but we can find some negative aspects. The last part of this paper is a small case study on the theme: "The firms in Benešovsko" which describes selected firms and above all their cooperation with Germany.

This diploma paper provides an overview of operation and meaning of multinational corporations in the modern global economy and in the economy of the Czech Republic. Likewise, the paper presents a comparison of conditions and consequences, connected with the activities of multinational corporations in the economies of Russian Federation and Czech Republic. During the process of studying the history and modern reality of multinational corporations in Czech Republic the author wanted to realize, how substantial was their influence in Czech economy. By comparison with multinational corporations' activities in Russian economy the author finds out, whether the scenario is unique in Czech republic, or it is possible to find certain analogues in other countries.

The aim of this paper is to describe and evaluate the development and the present form of the investment incentive system in the Czech Republic. Partial target is represented with its future form examination. The chapters include the description of the necessary legislation related to this topic, the comparison of the support programs and the development in receiving investment incentives concerning the manufacturing industry and the technology and strategic service centres. Eventually, the paper answers the question whether incentives should be preserved for the manufacturing industry in the future or should be fully oriented towards the technology and strategic service centres.

This diploma thesis deals with the presentation and the image of the Czech Republic within the European Union. The thesis is divided into a theoretical and an empirical part. The theoretical chapter concentrates on the background and foundations for the paper. The empirical chapters directly address the Czech Republic--a Central European country with a developed European economy. Emphasis is placed on organizations that focus on the presentation of the Czech Republic and the activities these organizations do to promote the Czech Republic. The final chapter focuses on the results of an online survey comparing public opinion between Czech residents and other European Union residents. The conclusion of the diploma thesis includes an analysis of all data collected (including the survey data), an evaluation of the status of the Czech Republic, and recommendations beneficial to presenting organizations.

The aim of the bachelor thesis is to depict the economic situation of translators in the Czech Republic and abroad. To achieve this goal I used information from existing papers and studies, which helped me define the translator activities theoretically. This is followed by real data from research, which is thoroughly analysed to describe the actual economic situation of translators.

The thesis examines the Benes decrees and the accession of the Czech Republic to the European Union. The paper focuses on legal issues concerning compatibility of the legal order of the Czech Republic, having the Benes decrees as its integral part, with so called acquis communautaire -- legal order of the European Union. The thesis aims to answer the question of what legal issues challenged the readiness of the Czech republic to join the European Union. The first chapter explaines the term Benes decrees and defines which decrees are relevant to the accession to the EU. The following chapter focuses on the role of the Benes decrees in the Czech legal order as well as on the conditions for EU membership. The last chapter compares four legal opinions concerning the Benes decrees and their compatibility with acquis communautaire. In conclusion, the thesis provides an answer to the research question as set down in the introduction.

This bachelor thesis focuses on the czech-american international relations. The purpose of this paper is to analyse these relations in chronological order. First chapter follows up the theoretical explication of relations between a small and a big country. Second chapter describes the shared relations of these two countries since the very beginning until the formation of Czechoslovakia. It also focuses on the role of the USA in this process. In the third chapter,the relations since the end of the First World War until the year 1989 are described and there is a focus on all the important events of this period. The last chapter focuses on the current relations between the Czech Republic and the USA and also points out the estabilishment of these relations since the beginning of the post-communist era.

The aim of the thesis is to identify the specific impacts of the global financial and economic crisis on the labour market of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The theoretical part deals with the problems of unemployment and presents the basic theoretical approaches to the functioning of the labour market. The paper then presents the underlying causes, development and spread of the economic crisis and its impact on economic performance and labour markets with an emphasis on the development of the unemployment rate in the European Union and Central European countries. The output is the analysis of effects on the labour market of the Czech Republic and Slovakia during the crisis, their evaluation and comparison.

This paper examines the impact of unemployment on the attendance of football matches in the highest Czech competition - Gambrinus League. The influence is studied and researched by using data from seasons 2010/2011 to 2012/2013, which contains 720 observations. The results show that the effect of unemployment is positive, but its explanatory power is due to problems in the model very low. Other results showed that rivalry influences the attendance at football matches the most, and that increases attendance by 36.5 %. A positive influence is also a broadcast matches on TV, such matches involve about 23 % more fans than when the television is not broadcasting them. More than 20 % of increase in attendance causes every achieved point from the average score values gained in the last three matches. Every one percent increase in population increases the attendance up to by 4.9 %. Positive effects on attendance had also factors of temperature and age of the club.

The foreign direct investment (FDI)nowadays play an important role in the world economy. Canada is one of the traditional investors in the Czech Republic, therefore this thesis informs in detail about those investment. The aim of my master thesis is analysing the Canadian FDI in the Czech Republic. This thesis should provide its readers with a view of sector structure as well as investment incentives granted to canadian investors. In this paper I also mention the topic of projected gold mining in the Mokrsko area.

The analysis of data from the Czech Republic between 1993 and 2013 assesses how VAT rate changes impact VAT revenues of respective national budgets. The core focus of the paper is the application of the Laffer curve on value added tax. Using a regression analysis we analyze how VAT revenue contributions to the budget are impacted by GDP. The results of our econometric model impaly that a 1% GDP increase leads to a 0.987% increase in VAT revenues to the budget. We find, by cleansing the VAT revenue data of inflationary and GDP effects, that the highest income generating VAT rates are 23% standard and 5% reduced. Both rates were, however, in effect as a result of VAT introductions in the Czech Republic, which might lead to a significant bias in our analysis. We present a chart of a time series of VAT revenues adjusted for inflationary and GDP effects which shows that VAT revenues decrease in the period from 1993 to 1998 after which they stabilize at around CZK 40bn until 2013. From that we infer that, over time, VAT payers have learned how to avoid the tax. We also present three hypotheses in our work; we find that an increase in the reduced VAT rate always brings additional revenues to the budget, that standard VAT rate changes impact revenues in the same direction in only 3 out of 5 cases, and that standard VAT rate changes are a leading variable for household consumption, the trend of which is always less volatile as the lagging variable. The above applies for the reduced VAT rate in just one of four cases.

For a small open economy such as the Czech Republic are important innovations, high value-added business and export. The main objective of this thesis is to provide a comprehensive overview of the overall advancement of nanotechnology and its impact on the economy, not only in the world but mainly in the Czech Republic. The paper first describes nanotechnology theoretically, its history and use. The second part focuses on the importance of nanotechnology to the world economy. On nanotechnologies in Czech Republic focuses third chapter, which evaluates funding, research and development of nanotechnology, the impact on the Czech economy and compares the position of the Czech Republic and other countries. The last part is devoted to the future of nanotechnology and the impact of their progress on the economy and investment.

The goal of this thesis is to introduce readers with the current state of the market of social networks in the Czech Republic with major focus on evolution of user perception of market rookie -- Google+ -- and with focus on success evaluation of marketing activities led to support this service. All this evaluation is done thanks to a research. The master thesis is split into 3 units, which gradually describe current perception of social networks, their definition and also the situation on the Czech market. After deeper description of Google+, the research is described. This research is led in order to allow obtaining data that would allow for comparison of situation before and after execution of above mentioned marketing activities executed during summer of 2012. Final unit of this paper focuses on the research data analysis in order to extract the evolution of awareness and of usage of compared social network and of course to offer very detailed look on Google+ itself and to offer the evaluation of efficiency of the marketing activities.

This paper analyzes business cooperation between the Czech Republic and the Russian Federation and evaluates its contractual arrangements in bilateral relations and contractual relations between the EU and the RF. It also characterizes Russian market, basic cultural features of Russian society and specifics of business dealings in Russia.

Africa is often explored and discussed topic in the field of international relations and current global system. This thesis concerns with the presence of Africa in Czech Foreign Policy and its goal is to analyze the presence of Africa, evaluate it and to propose the recommendations for future steps of Czech Foreign Policy in this region. This goal is reached in five chapters, while first one deals with characteristics of Africa region and detects its problems, the following three chapters are the core of the paper and provide analysis of Czech-African relations in terms of bilateral, trade and multilateral dimension (specifically EU and OSN). Finally the last chapter is dedicated to the evaluation of analyzed areas and to the recommendations for future actions of Czech Foreign Policy in Africa.

The corruption and the fight against it falls among very frequently discussed topics appearing on the front pages of media, also this phenomenon is currently being intensively discussed and plays an ever increasing role in the civil society as well. Recently, the civil society has shown a new trend which manifests itself in the birth of new anti-corruption organizations, new projects and other activities. Because of all the reasons, the paper deals with the anti-corruption non-governmental organizations (NGO's) and their activities in the Czech Republic. The text is divided into four chapters constituting two parts having two chapters each. The first part contains a summary of theoretical knowledge, the first chapter describes the non-profit sector and NGO's activities theory, the second chapter summarizes the basic theoretical information about the corruption phenomenon. The second part focuses on the description of the anti-corruption organizations, employs the theoretical knowledge and provides an analysis of the anti-corruption NGOs. The third chapter describes particular organizations, analyzes their activities and, based on some common characteristics recognized, outlines the division of the organizations into several groups. The fourth chapter contains an analysis on cooperating between different anti-corruption NGOs and handles a case study of a so called Pankrácká výzva(Pankrácká challenge).

This thesis deals with the globalization processes and their influence on society. The aim is to analyze the social consequences of globalization and to point out that globalization processes do not have only economic but also social consequences. It was used the available literature and relevant statistics and also a survey among young Czech people was carried out. Firstly, the thesis focuses on a definition and characteristics of the concept of globalization, its historical development and the characteristics of globalization processes. In the next section, attention is payed to the influence of globalization on the society as a whole and also on specific aspects. In the last part, the paper focuses on the Czech Republic and its membership in the European Union as one of the examples of globalization processes that our state and Czech society experience. The last part presents the results of the survey devoted to this topic. The main conclusion is that the impact of globalization on society should not be neglected, and vice versa should be in the spotlight as strongly affects our everyday lives.

The very first aim of this bachelor thesis is to analyse the competitiveness and innovativeness of the Czech Republic and Austria. Theoretical part is dedicated to description of different methods used for measuring the competitiveness focusing on its indicators with emphasis on the innovativeness. Practical section deals with the Czech and Austrian competitiveness using approach drawn by World Economic Forum - this paper compares them underlining their current differences trying to reason the present state of them both. At the end, the reader can find future GDP PPP predictions showing the diminishing gap between the Czech Republic and Austria.

The area of sport policy is in the political science a marginal issue, although the Czech public considers this as an important policy. The paper deals with the mutual relationships among sport, politics and civil society. The primary goal of this thesis is the analysis of the current sport policy and its stakeholders in the Czech Republic. The main text is divided into three chapters. The first one consists of theoretical part and deals with the theory of civil society, public policy and the issues of interest intermediation. The second chapter draws attention to the basic attributes of sport such as emergence, division and in particular the importance of sport for social relations. The last third chapter focuses mainly on the analysis of interests, priorities and goals of political parties and interest groups -- sports and physical education civil associations in the area of sports and physical activities. The end of the third chapter outlines the current problems and perspectives of sport and sport policy in the Czech Republic.

This thesis aims to analyse the economic relations between The Czech Republic and China according to the statistical, institutional and contractual data. It is supposed to assess its importance especially for the Czech economy and show possibilities of entering the Chinese market. The second part of the paper analyses the Chinese market itself and in the third part the prediction of future development is outlined.

This thesis discuss the phenomenon in income taxes during last decade - the flat tax. The paper analyzes historical development of income taxes and ideas of flat tax, how it worked in history and how economists elaborated different proposals of flat tax in 20th century. The main accent has concept of american economists Robert Hall and Alvin Rabushka, which is well-developed and which was the lodestar of czech tax reform in 2008. Thesis consists of analysis of their theoretical model, its effects and consequences. The comparison of czech implementation with original concept follows on some model examples of czech taxpayers. That illustrates how the implementation worked out.

This thesis deals with regression and graphical analysis of the labour market in the Czech Republic and Denmark. It makes comparison between the developments of major labour market indicators in both countries in relation to GDP growth in the years 2000 -- 2010. The paper describes the concept of a social model of flexicurity, which is used in Denmark. In both countries there is a difference in government policy toward the labour market. This is the main reason to make a comparison test of the labour market. Besides the overall comparison of unemployment rates are also analyzed specific vulnerable groups in terms of sensitivity reaction of selected indicators to economic development. The work is complemented by some of the specifics of the labour market, such as self-employment, part-time jobs, legislative protection employees and trade union power.

This thesis deals with the analysis of interbank payment systems in the Czech Republic and the Netherlands. The paper describes the fundamental characteristics of payment systems, including their division by various aspects. The thesis contains an overview of legislation affecting the operation of payment systems in the European Union in both analyzed countries. Furthermore, an analysis of interbank payment systems in the Czech Republic and the Netherlandsis performed, while in the Netherlands, there are two systems, large-value system TARGET2-NL and retail system Equens, the Czech Republic has only CERTIS system that performs both large-value and retail transactions. In the last part of the thesis there is detailed analysis of statistical information on these payment systems for the period from 2005 to 2009.

The purpose of this work is to focus on the issues of bond market regulation in the context of Czech legal system. The individual parts discuss the general definition of bonds, their form and characteristics, obligations of the issuers and regulatory requirements of capital market monitoring. This paper also provides a brief description of individual regulated market systems and their specifics is an integral part of this work.

The paper analyses relations between economic diplomacy and foreign development assistance. The ground of the analysis constitutes theoretical and practical concept of foreign development aid provided by the Czech republic and New Zealand set into the scope of economic diplomacy. The approaches of indicated countries are compared in aspect of total volume, territorial and issue allocation and the potential to utilize foreign development aid as a tool of economic diplomacy is assessed.

Due to the special international status of Taiwan the area of economic cooperation represents one of the most important components of the country's foreign policy. Economic diplomacy is one of the major tools to promote the economic interests of a state in international relations. First, the paper discusses the theoretical definition of economic diplomacy and the changes in approach to foreign relations in Taiwan. Further, it characterizes the institutional system of Taiwan's economic diplomacy. Based on the comparison of Taiwan's bilateral relations with a diplomatic ally and with a country without diplomatic relations, it is examined whether the form or the content of mutual relations is more important in order to achieve the economic diplomacy's objectives.

The goal is to bring India as a world leader with regard to its relations with the Czech Republic and European Union. India is today one of the fastest growing economies in the world. For this reason it is necessary to evaluate its present position in world markets especially its role in the international trade or its competitive advantages. The work contains a detailed analysis of the economic relations between India and the Czech Republic and India and European Union. The paper also examines the specifics of trading with the Indians.

The purpose of this study was to determinate the differences and similarities in the use of Internet and New Media between Czech Republic and Spain. This thesis defined the Internet user's profile and the usage of the Internet in both nations. It was also analyzed the social software Facebook, Tuenti (Spain) and Lidé (Czech Republic); the online encyclopedia Wikipedia and the server YouTube (and its closest competitor in each country). The information was mainly gathered from Internet. Then it was analyzed and compared. The author used her personal experience and knowledge of both cultures for the interpretation of the results. This work showed that there is not a big difference in the usage of Internet and New Media between these countries. For example, the difference in the Internet usage is not bigger than 5%. It also showed that Czech Republic has experienced the biggest growth in the area, even though Spain has more users. Both countries showed similar interest in web pages such as Facebook, Google and YouTube. Additionally, it demonstrated that the Spanish market is reacting better to the new opportunities offered by the social software. For this reason, they had created their own -- called Tuenti -- which is the main competition of Facebook in this country. On the other hand, Czech Republic does not have a website that counts with all the services offered by Facebook, which can explain the growth on the numbers of Czech users the last year. Wikipedia has versions available on the native languages of both countries. It is widely used, not only by the students who use it as a source for their paper work, but also in areas like marketing and journalism. YouTube is one of the most popular servers in these nations. They have their local video servers, but none of them have the same importance as YouTube. The author hopes this work will be a base for future investigators who will be interested on the comparison of these countries on the new technologies.

The purpose of this paper is to describe and evaluate the economic development of the Czech Republic and Netherlands from the year 2000 and consequently analyse mutual relations of both countries in the economic sphere and then in the field of culture and education. The relations have long-lasting tradition. We can find out the origins of mutual relations in the 11th century of the last millennium. This state belongs to the most important business partners of our country and currently is Netherlands not only the leading investor in the Czech Republic but also the leading recipient of the Czech investments.

Paper evaluates current status of the preparedness of the Czech economy for the currency Euro. It includes both aspects of the process, i.e. formal preparation and the real convergency. In the field of formal preparation the functioning of EMU is described, based on which current formal status of the czech EMU membership is assesed. The Maastricht criteria are considered part of the formal process as well. On the other hand, a range of real indicators, which are chosen based on various OCA resources is evaluated, giving the full picture of the current situation.