Bibliographic citation POLYÁK, Oliver (2012). The impact of Euro Adoption on Competitiveness: The comparison of Czech Republic and Slovakia. Prague, 2012. 71 p. Master thesis (Mgr.) Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Economic Studies. Master thesis supervisor prof. Ing. Oldřich Dědek, CSc. Abstract The present master's thesis is focused on the impact of introducing the common European currency on competitiveness of a country. There has been a lot written about the possible effects of euro adoption on economies of the first eurozone participants. The contribution of this thesis is that we explore the impact of euro introduction on competitiveness of Slovakia, in comparison to the Czech Republic which still uses its own national currency. Our findings suggest that most of the analyzed competitiveness indicators evolved largely in parallel in both countries. Positive trade effects brought about by the introduction of the euro are rather moderate - up to 5%. Slovak credit development was more favorable during the crisis, reflecting lower interest rates in eurozone. On the other hand, high contributions to European stabilization funds may hamper Slovak economic growth and negatively influence country's competitiveness in future. JEL Classification F14, F15 Keywords...

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T17:26:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Renan Evangelista Silva.pdf: 1131779 bytes, checksum: fa28f01d3bbd662b8bb71c0aef54a4b0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-10-26 / The philosopher Enrique Dussel has sought throughout his thinking and his works, make a new approach and reinterpretation of the colonizing process in Latin America. Our part of the author's thesis that the year 1492 was the beginning of the Amerindian masking by a domineering and violent ethos brought by Europeans. In the first chapter of the thesis, presents the historical context of Latin American from 1492 with the arrival of Columbus and the beginning of the deployment of European colonization process from the idea that culture and life of the natives did not have any ethical value and cultural, forcing the indigenous culture to give rise to the culture of the colonizers. In the second chapter, it is critical to the concept of Euro centrism, especially the Hegelian view of history, starting from the liberating practice of Fray Bartolome de Las Casas, who knew how to understand and respect the differences between Indians and settlers and to develop a "Good Colonization" , respecting differences and customs of the natives. In the chapter sees himself as the philosopher Enrique Dussel presents a new way of conceiving ethics Latino Americana, a new release called ethos, in which the otherness of lost Latino Americano resumed though the awakening of the victims, through their awareness the situation of oppression. This principle of freedom will find in the philosopher's ethics E. Lévinas support needed to understand the dimension of otherness and respect for the victims of the process of Euro centrism / O filósofo Enrique Dussel vem buscando ao longo de seu pensamento e de suas obras, fazer uma nova abordagem e releitura do processo colonizador na América Latina. Nosso autor parte da tese de que o ano de 1492 foi o começo do encobrimento do ameríndio por um éthos dominador e violento trazido pelos europeus. No primeiro capítulo da dissertação, apresenta-se o contexto histórico latinoamericano a partir de 1492 com a chegada de Colombo, e o início da implantação do processo colonizador europeu, a partir da ideia de que a cultura e a vida dos nativos não possuíam nenhum valor ético e cultural, obrigando a cultura indígena a dar lugar à cultura dos colonizadores. No segundo capítulo, faz-se a crítica ao conceito do eurocentrismo, principalmente à visão hegeliana da história, partindo da prática libertadora de Frei Bartolomeu de Las Casas, que soube entender e respeitar as diferenças entre índios e colonizadores e desenvolver uma Boa Colonização , respeitando as diferenças e os costumes dos nativos. No terceiro capítulo vê-se como o filósofo Enrique Dussel apresenta uma nova maneira de se conceber a ética latinoamericana, um novo éthos chamado libertação, em que a alteridade perdida do latinoamericano é retomada através do despertar das vítimas, por meio de sua tomada de consciência da situação de opressão. Esse princípio de libertação encontrará na ética do filósofo E. Lévinas o seu apoio necessário para entender a dimensão da alteridade e do respeito para com as vítimas do processo do eurocentrismo

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The aim of this thesis is to evaluate the impact of the use of foreign currencies, the euro by Czech companies on the accounting and analysis of the use of the euro in transactions. The first sub-objective is to determine the number of customers of the selected group who trade in the euro and the division of enterprises by size according to specified criteria. The second sub-objective is to determine the effect of the euro in the case of exchange rate differences and to be reflected in the financial statements. The work will evaluate the status and development of customers who use the euro as the transaction currency. The impact of the euro on society and the division of enterprises according to different criteria will be described. Part will be devoted to exchange rate differences. The last part of the thesis will deal with the impact of the euro on the financial statements

The thesis documents the changes in Italian public opinion towards the Euro. Its aim is to assess the relevance of economic factors for the decline in Italian support for the common currency. The thesis begins by assessing the extent to which support for the Euro has declined in Italy. While there has been popular, media and political comment on this issue, the thesis investigates the changes in attitude through the use of survey material and concludes that there is compelling evidence that public support for the Euro has declined in Italy. The thesis adopts a utilitarian/rational choice approach in order to investigate the reasoning behind the Italian public's developing relationship with the single currency from 1998 to the present. Its central question is: How have economic factors impacted on the Italian public's support for the Euro? The analysis focuses on Italians' perceptions - not their actual knowledge - of national and individual level economic changes brought about by the single currency. The thesis investigates how such perceptions have impacted Italian popular support for the Euro over the period 1998-2007. The method employed in this thesis is primarily based around analysing quantitative data gathered from Standard and Flash Eurobarometers. Other sources considered are academic literature and newspaper articles. The analysis clearly suggests that Italians' optimism towards their national and personal economic situations have all decreased since the Euro was introduced, concurrently with their diminishing support for the Euro. This work suggests that the main reason for decreased support lies in Italian perceptions that the Euro has contributed to worsening economic situations at both the national and individual levels. In particular, Italians believe the Euro has spurred inflation and diminished their purchasing power, and accuse it of failing to promote economic growth and jobs. However, Eurobarometer data combined with newspaper articles indicate that it is the perceived economic consequences at the individual level - loss of purchasing power due to Euro-related price increases, and pessimism towards their household financial situation - that more strongly determine Italians' decreasing support for the Euro.

<p> </p><p>This paper is made on behalf of Statistics and Research Åland, ÅSUB. The aim is to explain the turnover for companies in Åland, with appropriate variables. The main study variables are variables that consist of the Swedish and Finnish activity indices. The study variables also include variables which consist of tourists from Sweden and Finland and the introduction of the Euro in Finland. The data used is from the period January 1996 to June 2008.</p><p>Different regression models for the turnover are tried and explanatory variables are selected by use of stepwise regression, backward elemination and forward selection.</p><p> </p><p>The final model includes activity indices for Sweden and Finland, the introduction of the Euro, tourists from Finland and an autoregressive component of order one . The Swedish activity index are time lagged by one and three months and therefore consists of two variables, while the Finnish activity index is not lagged.</p><p> </p>

<p>The purpose of this paper is to study whether Sweden or Finland was initially better suited for the euro, and whether Sweden has benefited from remaining outside the third step of the European Monetary Union as opposed to Finland.  The analysis is based on the optimum currency area theory.  The findings show that Sweden initially was better suited for euro adoption than Finland, but the ECB’s monetary policy has suite Finland quite well.  However, Sweden appears to have benefited from remaining outside the euro.</p>

The purpose of this paper is to study whether Sweden or Finland was initially better suited for the euro, and whether Sweden has benefited from remaining outside the third step of the European Monetary Union as opposed to Finland.  The analysis is based on the optimum currency area theory.  The findings show that Sweden initially was better suited for euro adoption than Finland, but the ECB’s monetary policy has suite Finland quite well.  However, Sweden appears to have benefited from remaining outside the euro.

L'obiettivo di questa tesi di dottorato è quello di individuare alcune tematiche che permettano la comprensione, anche e soprattutto dall'interno, di un processo storico, politico, economico e socio-culturale che ha fortemente caratterizzato e condizionato la sponda sud del Mediterraneo e, in particolare la Tunisia. I fili conduttori della ricerca sono lo studio del sistema-Paese Tunisia, della sua storia dall'indipendenza fino ai nostri giorni, del funzionamento delle istituzioni politiche, della complessa relazione tra etnie, religione, partiti politici e poteri istituzionali, delle relazioni internazionali e dell'economia. Ampio spazio viene assegnato all'analisi del ruolo della donna in Tunisia alla luce del Code du Statut Personnel, che ne regolamenta la posizione e le funzioni nella società tunisina. Infine, viene affrontato il tema del Partenariato euromediterraneo, con particolare attenzione all'area socio-culturale: quest'ultima fa sì che la Tunisia si ponga oggi tra i Paesi Terzi Mediterranei maggiormente all'avanguardia nella cooperazione. / The objective of this thesis of doctorate is to characterize some thematics in order to permit the understanding, above all from the inside, of an historical, political, economic and socio-cultural process. This has strongly characterized and conditioned the south side of the Mediterranean and, in particular Tunisia. The threads of the search are the study of the system -Country Tunisia, of its history from independence until our days; of the operation of the political institutions; of the complex relation between ethnic groups, religion, political parties and institutional powers; of the international relations and the economy. Wide space is given to the analysis of the role of the woman in Tunisia to the light of the Code du Statut Personnel. It prescribes the position and the woman's functions in the Tunisian society. Finally, it is faced the topic of the Euromediterranean Partnership, with particular attention to the socio-cultural area. In such a way Tunisia today places between the Mediterranean Thirds Countries mainly to the vanguard in the cooperation.

The money demand function has been regarded as a fundamental building block in macroeconomic modelling, as it represents the link between the monetary policy and rest of the economy. The extensive literature on money demand function is concerned with the existence of a stable money demand function, which ensures adequate prediction of impact of a given change in money supply on other economic variables such as, inflation, interest rates, national income, private investment and other policy variables. This thesis employs both linear and nonlinear estimation methods to investigate the relationship between money demand, GDP, inflation and interest rates for the Euro Area over the period 1980-2010. The aim of this thesis is to compare the European money demand in linear and nonlinear framework. First a vector autoregression (VAR) model has been estimated. Then a threshold cointegration model has been employed and nonlinearity properties of the money demand relationship has been investigated. In contrast to the existing empirical literature, linear VEC model can find evidence of stability, however it has some conflicting results which can be explained by the nonlinearity of the model. Empirical results of MTAR type threshold cointegration specification verifies the nonlinearity in European money demand. The adjustment coefficient of lower regime suggests faster adjustment towards long run equilibrium compared to upper regime in nonlinear model. Moreover, the nonlinear model presents better fit to economic literature than linear model for European money demand.