Magister Legum - LLM / South Africa

The diploma thesis deals with detailed description of adoption the european currency in Slovakia. The opening focus is dedicated to the transformation of Czechoslovakian economy, upon which the current monetary policy has been built. Next section depicts Slovak pro-european policy that culminates in entering the European monetary union. The center point of the thesis closely anatomizes changes that the new course of monetary policy has brought and defines benefits and costs of introducing Euro. By means of the analyze, established findings are applied on specifications of Czech republic.

This diploma thesis deal with decision making process in the Czech national bank's bank board in first six years after the switch to inflation targeting. Due to the transcripts from monetary policy meetings I analyze propensity and it's trend in preferences of bank's board members and compare it with their votings for change in interest rates. I show which members had the greatest influence on the bank board's decision in particular time. In the last part I compare optimal interest rate due to the Czech national bank's inflation target and external conditions to the member's preferences. Therefore I can evaluate the members and say who was the best monetary decision maker.

This work is the description of one importat chapter in American monetary history. Today, the existence of central monetary authority is the matter of course, as indispensable nessesity. This institution had its champions even in young United states and was fouded there according the example of the Bank of England. In spite of that, the wide political opposition was formed and Bank was eventualy dismantelet. How well was the monetary system of the young nation without its central autority? Thats the matter of debates and research, which is relevant even for today.

This diploma thesis deals with the impact of the debt crisis in the euro area to status of the euro in the world. The first part describes the circumstances of the origin and progress of the debt crisis. In the second part are more fully described various monetary policy measures taken by the ECB in response to the debt crisis as well as their impact on the European economy. The third part analyzes the international role of the euro in sub-segments of the financial market in the period before and during the debt crisis and provides an overall picture of its impact on the euro.

The ECB was established during the third phase of the economic and monetary union and its activities launched on 1. 7. 1998. It has become a new independent institution whose primary task became the conduct of monetary policy for countries that have accepted the euro currency. This master thesis examines the impact of monetary policy of the euro area and its asymmetric effects. ECB affects individual national economies using its strategies and instruments. Using especially interest rates makes monetary policy expansive or restrictive. For every country, belonging to euro area, has this policy different implications. Although ECB attempts to implement monetary policy for every country equally, for some countries has a monetary policy asymmetric effect. Using the Taylor rule of monetary policy, we can find contradictory effects of monetary policy.

The aim of this paper is to find out, if the foreign exchange intervention executed by Czech National Bank influenced car sales in Czech Republic. Similar research was not examined by any author so far. The study analyze the case of four most sold car brands in Czech Republic (Hyundai, Skoda, Volkswagen, Opel) between the years 2012 and 2014. Positive impact of the intervention was found out in two cases.

The aim of this thesis is the analysis and subsequent comparison of two different systems of central banking in the centrally planned and liberal market economy in the Czech Republic from 1948 until now. The basic parameters of the analysis are monetary policy, independence of central banking and the regulation and supervising of banking sector. The theoretical part deals with economic theory and the theory of central banking, especially monetary policy, exchange rate policy, theory of regulation, theory of independence, theory of supervising and how different economical schools are looking on this issue. Analytical part is divided into analysis and comparison of the two periods on the basis of specific parameters - legislative and legal anchorage, institutional support, monetary policy, supervisory function and independence. From the final comparison, based on the valuation of the pros and cons, is obvious that a system of liberal economy banking is more successful and more sustainable for the future, because it is based on a high degree of central bank independence, which is trying to fulfill its primary goals regardless of the ruling political power.

Recent crisis and economic recession caused in many countries problems with drop in inflation and overall downturn in economic growth. The Central Banks found themselves in so called zero lower bound. This thesis describes the situation of deflation, zero lower bound and liquidity trap. These conditions called for the use of alternative monetary policy tools. The main goal of the thesis is to evaluate the use of foreign exchange rate intervention as unconventional tool in a small open economy with inflation targeting regime represented by the Czech Republic in the analytic part. Thesis examines other non-standard instruments and provides reasons for the Czech National Bank decision. The analysis shows the complexity of the issue and provides the evidence that exchange rate commitment was not displayed to the desired price level. The tool could lead to expected repercussion, but the effect is impacted by factors, which Central Bank cannot control. The effect of the CB way to fight the decreasing inflation will be better shown after the CB exit from the commitment.

The thesis deals with the European Central Bank which is a central institution of the European Monetary Union; its establishment, structure, organs and its relationship to other European Union institutions. Core principles of monetary poli cy and instruments are described. The second part is dedicated to the analysis of monetary policy with focus on changes in the rate of main refinancing operations with respect to the economic development (inflation rate, GDP growth etc.). The time from 1999 is divided into several periods and particular attention is paid to the contemporary economic crisis and ECB's non-standard measures.