Does the choice of exchange-rate regime effect the economic growth performance of a country? And does the significance of such a relationship vary across different levels of development? Few questions in international economics, whether it be in academic or policy circles, have inspired as much debate yielding as little consensus. Although both economic growth theory and empirical literatures suggests the existence of direct and indirect channels, through which the choice of regime may indeed impinge the growth rate, neither has managed to provide an unambiguous answer. The aim of this paper is to analyze the theoretical arguments as to the relationship between the choice of exchange-rate regime and economic growth and to empirically investigate if there is an optimal regime, in terms of growth, and if the significance of this impact differs across various levels of country development. Applying a cross-sectional regression estimation of 60 countries over the period 2000-2010, this paper finds that the choice of exchange-rate regime holds no significant explanatory power over economic growth. These findings were robust to dividing the sample based on the level of country development. Although no direct relationship was found, these findings supports the argument that the choice of regime may indeed effect growth indirectly, through its impact on other deterministic growth factors, such as trade, investment and productivity. The findings of this paper are both in accord and discord with previous results and underlines how divergent the empirical research is on this continuously debated issue.

The phenomenon of psychic distance has been thoroughly researched regarding its influence on the internationalization patterns of firms into foreign markets. Psychic distance has been determined by a plethora of existing literature as an inhibitor to trade; however, much of this research only takes on the perspective of the firm. The construct of psychic distance has primarily been examined on the supply side, while a lack of literature exists examining the impact of psychic distance from the consumer’s perspective. Furthermore, the academic world has devoted little attention to applying the psychic distance construct to e-commerce, especially in terms of retail. Due to the continuously rising significance of e-commerce, especially in terms of cross-border retail, understanding the way in which consumers perceive foreign international online vendors (IOVs) is essential to business success. This thesis contributes to the existing research regarding psychic distance, by seeking to answer the following research questions: "How do varying levels of perceived psychic distance impact the online purchasing behaviors of consumers?" and "How does the impact of perceived psychic distance on purchasing behaviors vary based on consumer’s nationality?". To answer these questions, empirical data is collected through the conduct of five focus groups of varying nationalities, each either containing consumers of French, German, Swedish, Russian or Chinese nationality. The analysis of empirical data is built upon a theoretical foundation using the conceptualization of distance defined by Dow & Karunaratna (2006), consumer nationality and retailer country of origin (COO). The findings of this thesis conclude that perceived psychic distance likely has somewhat of an influence on consumer online purchasing behaviors. However, factors such as development level of retailer COO, retailer COO familiarity, development level of consumer nationality, and consumer ethnocentrism have more measurable impacts on the purchasing behaviors of consumers in the online retail context.

This master thesis is focused on analysis of management of Jihočeský region, especially regional development funding, renovation of cultural monuments and country development. In analysis of region's management and funding in 2000 -- 2013 period I work with closing accounts. You can see the growing trend of incomes and expenses of this region. At the start of this examining period of time total expenses are greater than incomes. Next chapter is about given grants for regional development, when the highest numbers are always grants for country development. In the last chapter I focus on renovation of cultural monuments in Jihočeský region 2011 -- 2013 period, when the highest numbers are grants for renovation of cultural real-estates.

This diploma thesis evaluate tourism in Karlštejnsko and Křivoklátsko regions. These questions were firstly evaluated from sight of quantity which shown offer range of touristic activities and activities in selected regions. The points of the next research are estimations of government, promoter subjects and information centres in question of importance of case country-side tourist traffic and level of its support from public domain.

一九一九年，中山先生開始撰寫「實業計畫」，並在一九二一年完成這個作品，本書的另一個名稱是「物質建設」。中山先生在這個計畫中提出了六個發展設計：交通系統、電力與電廠、礦業、農業和工業，同時還包括其他如林業、灌溉、邊區發展、人口和國防等。中山先生想透過龐大的建設計畫使中國邁向發展，這是他增進人民經濟財富願望的一部份，而「實業計畫」的完成，代表了中山先生經濟思想的一個重大轉捩點。在這之前，中山先生的觀點眼著於強化中國人民對國家未來發發展的的渴求，樣的觀念一直停留在建設方針的建立上，至於明確的建設計畫則付之闕如。但在「實業計畫」產生之後，中山先生開始將其經濟計化思想轉換成完經濟建設計畫，「實業計畫」正是這種情狀下的心血結晶，而這也是中山先生企圖使中國由貧窮走向富強的努力和嘗試。姑且不論其是否真正的付行，或是計畫內部的細節設計是否得當，單是豬這樣的觀點和見識，便不當時中國傳統教育下的學者所能觀察和了解到的問題，而這也是中山先生之觀察深入，洞燭機先的地方。 　　本論文的研究目的可化歸為以下幾點： 　　1.對於西方發展社會學的研究向度、理論架構及關注重點，進行基本的探究和了解。 　　2.經由中山先生的若干著作和原典，了解中山先生對於中國未來發展內外條件的認知，歸結這些內外條件之後，對於中山先生的國家發展觀所具有的整體性規畫進行詮釋。 　　3.分析實業計畫的整體設計，並利用第二部份所獲得的研究結論，超脫傳統經濟範疇內的討論，重新給予實業計畫在文化及社會層面的定位。 　　4.由實業計畫的國際觀出發，了解在中山先生的觀點，中國未來的發展對於世界將有何種貢獻。