Loan contract This thesis investigates the provision of loans based on the Loan Contract under Sections 497- 507 of the Commercial Code. Extension in which is the Loan Contract investigated is then applied to comparison with the New Civil Code. In the New Civil Code is the Loan Contract under Sections 2395 - 2400. Furthermore, some other legal institutes closely related to the Loan Contract are also described (e.g. securities, interest, business terms). In the first chapter, I describe the definition of a loan, its essential importance in market economy, and its definition in legal and economical sense. The second chapter deals with fundamental principles which are applied when enclosing the Loan Contract. The following third chapter aims to origin and evolution of the loan from its formation to the latest legal regulation. In the fourth chapter I go in for introduction of the New Civil Code and for a brief general discourse about this new Czech civil law codex. The fifth chapter deals with legal regulation of the Loan Contract in the Commercial Code and then it is compared with the legal regulation in the New Civil Code. Subject of a sixth chapter is analysis of conception of the Loan Contract used in selected foreign legal systems. In the following seventh chapter the difference between the Loan...

Development of consumers' protection issue dates back to 1970s but real beginning of the issue is considered to be at the turn of 1980s and 1990s. Ever since then has this area gone through dynamic development. The main reason behind that is fact that consumer contracts became everyday reality of our life (when buying goods, using public transportation or eating in restaurants). Another reason is unfair or even abusing behavior of businessman towards consumers. Thus main purpose of consumer's law is setting up of balance that is disrupted by economic strength and supremacy of businessman over consumer. That is achieved primarily by binding legal enactment. Securing protection of consumers from point of view both private law and public law including definitions of consumer, businessman and consumer contract is described in chapter number four and six. Consumer law isn't privilege of civil law only. Whole sphere of consumer law overlaps into commercial law, administrative, criminal and European law as well. Numerous legal acts, public notices, regulations and orders that more or less regulate consumer law are the evidence. Consumer law is strongly affected by European legislation - especially by secondary sources of law (directives). Both evolution and sources of law are described in chapter number...

Der erste Artikel analysiert den Einfluss von CDS Handel auf Kreditsyndizierung. Theoretisch können CDS sowohl positive wie auch negative Effekte haben. Auf der einen Seite sind CDS flexiblere Risikomanagement-Instrumente als Kredit Verkäufe. Auf der andern Seite kann ein Kreditgeber nicht glaubhaft versichern einen Kreditnehmer zu überwachen, wenn Kreditrisiko anonym mit CDS abgelegt werden kann (moral hazard). Wir finden, dass Kreditgeber signifikant höhere Anteile an Krediten halten, wenn CDS auf das Fremdkapital des Kreditnehmers gehandelt werden. Wir finden keine Evidenz für moral hazard. Der zweite Artikel untersucht den Einfluss von Manager Optimismus auf die Verwendung von performance-abhängigen Vertragsklauseln in Kreditverträgen (PSD). Gegeben ihrer verzerrten Erwartungen über die zukünftige Performance der Firma könnten optimistische Manager PSD als günstige Finanzierungsmöglichkeit ansehen. Wir finden, dass optimistische Manager mehr PSD nutzen und schlechter nach der Ausgabe von PSD performen als rationale Manager. Der dritte Artikel untersucht, ob PSD genutzt werden kann um hold-up Probleme in langfristigen Kreditbeziehungen zu verringern. Wir finden, dass PSD mehr in Hausbankbeziehungen genutzt wird – insbesondere wenn der Kreditnehmer wenig alternative Finanzierungsmöglichkeiten besitzt. Des Weiteren finden wir einen Substitutionseffekt zwischen der Stärkte von Finanz-Covenants und der Nutzung von PSD. Diese Resultate stützen die Hypothese, dass PSD genutzt wird um hold-up Probleme zu mindern. / The first paper analyzes the impact of credit default swap (CDS) trading on loan syndication. Theoretically, CDS can have both positive and negative effects. One the one hand, CDS are a flexible risk management tool and can therefore replace loan sales (risk management). On the other hand, lenders can no longer credibly commit to monitor a borrower if laying off credit risk anonymously via CDS is possible making loan sales costly (moral hazard). We find that lenders retain significantly higher shares of loans once CDS are actively traded on a borrower’s debt. We find no evidence for moral hazard. The second paper examines the impact of managerial optimism on the inclusion of performance-pricing provisions in debt contracts (PSD). Given their upwardly biased expectations about the firm''s future cash flow, optimistic managers may view PSD as a relatively cheap form of financing. We find that optimistic managers are more likely to issue PSD. Consistent with their biased expectations, firms with optimistic managers perform worse than firms with rational managers after issuing PSD. The third paper examines if PSD is used to reduce hold- up problems in long-term lending relationships. We find that the use of PSD is more common in the presence of a long-term lending relationship and if the borrower has fewer financing alternatives available. Further, we find a substitution effect between the use of PSD and the tightness of financial covenants. This result also supports our hypothesis that hold-up concerns motivate the use of PSD.

近年來知名公司面臨起訴或遭到定罪的消息層出不窮，然而在公司定罪的相關研究中，多數文獻著重於探究遭受定罪之事實對公司價值的影響，較少研究聚焦於定罪事實對公司所參與之聯貸案契約條件的影響，有鑑於此，本篇文章旨在探討犯罪公司於定罪前後其聯貸借款條件之借款利率是否有顯著差異。本篇研究發現事件前後犯罪公司之借款利率差異並不顯著。當我們試以修正資料庫登錄與犯罪新聞時間差的問題後，結果顯示犯罪公司之借款利率於犯罪相關新聞發布後顯著上升，除此之外，考量交乘作用後發現犯罪公司間，犯罪罪刑為詐欺類以及受判罰金較高的犯罪公司於事件後，相較於其他犯罪公司，該類公司更傾向面臨較高的借貸成本。 / A number of well-known corporate prosecutions have been raised in recent years. Previous literature focuses more on the valuation impact of corporate convictions. Empirical evidence on how corporate convictions affect the contract terms of syndicated loan is sparse. We examine how corporate misconducts affect the pricing of bank debt after corporate convictions. We find that the difference of loan spreads between facilities initiated before and after conviction are insignificant. Taking potential lag of initial announcement time into consideration, we find significant evidence that the effect of corporate conviction is positively associated with the increases of loan spreads. Moreover, interaction terms with conviction variable show that firms with large fines or convicted of fraud-related crimes tend to face higher loan spread after convictions.