This thesis embraces the system of state support of export in Czech republic. Basic financial and non-financial instruments of state support of export in Czech republic are introduced in particular chapters which also contains a description of institutions dealing with above mentioned instruments.

The purpose of my thesis is to describe the bank product building savings, especially to focuse on legal and economical problems. The thesis is composed of seven chapters, each of them dealing with different aspects of building savings. Chapter One mentions the history of buildings savings, its origin and development. Chapter Two includes a list of the relevant Czech legislation, which is connected with Czech system of building savings. Chapter Three is introductory and defines basic terminology used in the thesis, as the savings phase, the loan phase, bridging loans or regular loans. Chapter Four focuses on the building savings bank as the special banks, whose business activities are restricted. Chapter Five describes the savings phase of the building savings, primarily the contract. The subchapters point out closing, changing and terminating the contracts and presents participants in building savings. Chapter Six deals with the problems of loan providing and closing the loan contracts. Because the purpose of the existence of building savings is to finance housing for as many people as possible, especially by providing loans, the main part of the thesis focuses right on the loans. The building savings banks provide two kinds of loans, bridging loans and regular loans. Chapter Seven analyzes the...

This dissertation examines the process of through which the government of the People's Republic of China ostensibly produces popular legitimacy by inculcating an attachment to Chinese national identity among the public. It seeks to understand the theoretical connections between national identity and support for the state and to learn which groups of people are most affected by the state's influences in this regard. A basic two-step process is theorized, in which the first step is the state's attempt to shape the public's concept of Chinese national identity and the public's attachment to the nation. The bulk of the dissertation addresses this part of the process at the individual level. Two main mechanisms of state influence on national identity are examined: the educational system and the mass media. The main method of research used is the analysis of survey data. The analysis here comes from three survey datasets: the 2005-2008 wave of the World Values Surveys, the 2006-2007 Chinese Ethnicity Survey, and the 2008 China Survey. In the investigation of Chinese education, survey data analysis is supplemented by field research conducted in two middle schools in China, including classroom observation and informal conversations with teachers and students. A brief analysis of a middle school Chinese history textbook is also included. These qualitative investigations are able to show the mechanisms through which education produces an attachment to Chinese national identity. The last chapter of the dissertation turns to the second step in the process: nationalism's relationship with support for the state at the individual level. Survey data are again used to investigate this relationship. This dissertation finds evidence that the state is able, to a certain extent, to influence national identity among the public, both in terms of the elements of Chinese national identity, and in terms of the strength of people's attachment to the nation. A person's level of exposure to the media and his or her level of education are both shown to be significant predictors of their levels of attachment to Chinese national identity, and these relationships look just as the theory would expect. With respect to the second part of the process, strong evidence is found that those who cling more tightly to Chinese national identity are more supportive of the state. In addition to this relatively unsurprising finding, however, we find that this relationship is the strongest among Han Chinese, and among those with particular ideas about the social purposes of China. From these findings it is concluded that the process of state legitimation through nationalism--an oft-mentioned but rarely examined process--does, to some extent, work. Levels of education and media consumption are some of the most powerful predictors of national attachment, and national attachment itself is the most powerful predictor of state support. However, while these are statistically significant relationships, they are not to be overstated. Most of the variation at the individual level, both in Chinese national identity and in state support, remains unexplained: both are difficult to successfully predict based on the models. The state, while it does have a `nationalizing' impact through the media and the educational system, does not by any means have control over popular levels of nationalism or state support.

The main purpose of the thesis is to analyse contemporary legal regulations governing the field of building savings in the Czech Republic and recent changes of these legal regulations. The thesis is composed of six chapters, each of them dealing with different aspects of building savings' legal regulation, the introduction, the closing part, lists and annexes. The matters already mentioned above are described in chapters two, three and five. Divided into remaining chapters and within the capacity limits, the thesis also includes secondary issues, such as the evolution of building savings and its legal regulation in Europe and in the Czech Republic in connection with the description of changes made to the legal regulations rather long time ago and followed by research of the practical application of these legal regulations. The aim of the thesis is to complete pieces of knowledge gathered from the legal regulations, from practical research and from my two years expirience as a building savings commercial broker and create an integrated thesis that is transparent and complete from different angles of view. Conclusions are drawn particularly in the closing part of the thesis where are briefly summarized the author's opinions on problems described in each chapter.

BUILDING SAVINGS - LEGAL AND ECONOMICAL ISSUES, ABSTRACT The aim of this work is to familiarize the reader in details with the issue of building savings. The work describes the basic principles and the system of building savings, problematic of building savings from the point of view of the building societies and also provides useful advices to the potential participants of the building savings. It also deals with the key jurisprudence and considers the form of this financial product in the future. In the first chapter, historical process of the building savings in England, Germany and Czech Republic is described, and principle of the self-help building societies is explained. Second chapter presents introduction to problems of the building savings, basic principle is explained and the legal regulations are described here. Attention is also paid to one of the key terms of the building savings, which is the state support of building savings and its effect on profitability and existence of the building savings. The building societies, as highly specialized financial institutions, are described in the following chapter. There is also outlined the management of the building savings here, what is concerned with the building savings fund and consequently with keeping the balance between deposits and loans. Both...

The aims of this study are to analyze the situation of the business field in foreign markets, valorize the state support to the firms during entering the foreign markets, comparison of the business possibilities in the Czech Republic with the advanced countries and definition of the crucial areas for the more effective realization of the commercialize and economic policy of the state. The work is separated into six parts. In the first part, there is a short summary of literature, the second part is connected with methods. The third part analyzes the fact, if the manufacturing corporations in the Ceske Budejovice region feel to be competitive in foreign markets, if they have problems during entering the foreign markets, if they use state support of export and if they feel that the state obtain a brief of them well. This study was executed on the basis of survey sampling, which was done by e-mail questioning. The obtain data were analyzed and diagrammatized. The fourth chapter charts the support of export, which are offered to the exporters by the Czech Republic. The fifth part analyzes the support of abroad export and limits the positives and negatives of the Czech firms. The last chapter analyzes the commercialize and economic policy of the Czech Republic and defines its key areas.

Doctor of Philosophy / Security Studies Interdepartmental Program / Emizet N. Kisangani / This study examines the effects of regime type on support to foreign insurgent groups. Theoretically, it relies on structural and normative characteristics of democracies by arguing that leaders in these regimes tend to encounter multiple disincentive mechanisms generally not found in non-democracies. Thus, leaders of democratic regimes are less likely to actively support foreign insurgent groups as a component of strategy below the threshold of military intervention. When they do choose to lend their support, they tend to choose either low-level types of support (simple material support) or high-level support (full military intervention). Leaders of non-democratic regimes, however, can employ the full spectrum of support types to seize strategic opportunities and tailor strategies that are more costly and more risky. The dissertation tests this theory by using both quantitative and qualitative research methods. The statistical analysis of a dyadic, cross-sectional, time-series dataset of 179 countries from 1975 to 2009 provides some support for the proposed hypotheses. Structured, focused comparison of three conflicts with multiple within-case observations (cases) also reveals modest support for the hypothesis that democracies are unlikely to support insurgent groups in general and have multiple disincentives toward providing mid-level types of support that expose the democratic leaders to additional costs and risks. Unexpectedly, the qualitative case studies reveal that in addition to the structural disincentives initially identified, leaders of democratic regimes may have a harder time managing the principal-agent relationship between the supporting state (principal) and the insurgent groups (agents). The need to maintain a large winning coalition to survive as a leader in a democracy presents multiple principal-agent problems and allows rebel leaders and rebel factions to resist integration, prevent the loss of autonomy, and facilitate the establishment of alternative avenues of resource mobilization. While previous literature in political science and international relations provides evidence that structural characteristics of democratic regimes make them good at winning interstate wars, this study provides initial evidence that those same structural characteristics make democracies’ success more elusive when applying unconventional strategies short of war.

This graduation thesis about possibilities of housing financing is focusing in the Czech Republic. The first part of this thesis describes current position on the housing market, different types of housing and their specific feature In the second part, I describe building saving and mortgages including selected products of banks and building savings and their analysis. In this part there is also referred to state support of financing housing.

The diploma thesis focuses on the state support for environmental protection in the Czech Republic and mainly the allocations from the state budget and from the State environmental fund. In the first part is defined the role of the state by supporting environment with looking on the actual stadium of environment and its reasons. Subsequently are analyzed the forms of state support and is discussed the question of the sense of the State environmental fund existence. The last part is devoted to the looking on the concrete public expenses in the environment and their efficiency.

This dissertation offers a complex analysis of the state supported export credit market in the Czech Republic. For the most part of the work the author deals with credit insurance market as it represents a key part of the system. Author analyses portfolio specifics of the local export credit insurance agency and searches for the most effective risk mitigation techniques and procedures in order to maintain its long-term non-loss operations while keeping in mind its special supportive mission. Particular attention is given to the export credit insurance agency's business policy that copes with problems of information asymmetry, moral hazard and adverse selection. Author points out the differences between state supported and commercial insurers, analyses European legislation preventing export credit agencies from competition with commercial insurers and outlines more effective endogenous and self-regulating system. Minority of the work deals with less important export credit financing agency that represents a dominant player at the export credit financing market. Author finds almost twenty reasons of its extraordinary position at the market that has no analogy within developed countries worldwide and outlines a system securing its complement role to the commercial banks. Finally the author provides the analysis of the whole state supported export credit system, highlights its main risks in conjunction with each other and concludes that combination of negative circumstances influencing several important features of the system could possibly lead to a long-term instability of the system.