Thesis (M.B.A. (Rhodes Investec Business School)) - Rhodes University, 2009. / A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Business Administration (MBA)

This thesis is focused on forestry economics and timber industry and present state of the Czech foreign commerce with raw food. Finally, there are determined critical factors, proposals and recommendations.

The paper provides an explanation of the mechanisms underlying trade roots of the contagion effects emanating from the recent turmoils. It is argued that under demand uncertainty risk averse behavior of firms provides a basis for international trade. The paper shows by means of a simple two-country model that risk averse firms operating in perfectly competitive markets with uncertainty of demand tend to diversify markets what gives a basis for international trade in identical commodities even between identical countries. It is shown that such trade may be welfare improving despite efficiency losses due to cross-hauling and transportation costs. The analysis reveals that change of the expectations concerning market conditions caused by the turmoil in the neighbor country (i.e., shift in the perception of market conditions) may lead to macroeconomic destabilization (increase in price level and unemployment, worsening of terms of trade, and deterioration of trade balance). / Series: Discussion Papers of the Institute for Economic Geography and GIScience

Thesis (M.B.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 123-129).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 82-88).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 82-88). Also available in print.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Miami University, Dept. of Political Science, 2007. / Title from second page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 136-141).

En matière économique, l'autorisation administrative est un instrument de contrôle du marché dont l'instauration et souvent l'allocation sont théoriquement décidées par l'État. Le recours au marché pour distribuer certaines autorisations administratives bouscule cette présentation. L'autorisation administrative devient l'objet même d'un marché tout en étant un outil censé le réguler. Une fois admise cette ambivalence, se pose la question de la pérennité du contrôle de l'État lorsque l'octroi des autorisations administratives qu'il prévoit repose sur le marché. Susceptible de mettre les bienfaits de ce mode d'allocation des ressources au service de la régulation de l'économie, cette évolution du régime de l'autorisation administrative peut en même temps exprimer la soumission à la loi du marché de la régulation étatique au moyen de l'autorisation administrative.L'objet de cette thèse est de démontrer que l'État n'a qu'une influence limitée sur l'allocation marchande des autorisations administratives à objet économique. Impuissant à empêcher la formation du marché en raison des considérations économiques et psychologiques qui président à sa construction, il l'encourage généralement de façon involontaire ou sous la contrainte. Avec l'Union européenne, les opérateurs économiques soumis à autorisation préalable sont les premiers artisans du marché. Une fois le marché construit, des leviers d'intervention permettent à l'État d'influencer les échanges d'autorisations administratives. En adoptant tour à tour les rôles d'offreur d'autorisations administratives, de demandeur et d'autorité régulatrice, il cumule les facultés de contrôle respectivement attachées à ces fonctions. La circonstance que ces compétences soient toutes partagées et pas nécessairement mises en œuvre atténue notablement ce constat. / In the economic sphere, administrative authorization is traditionally considered a tool used to control the market, with its creation and oftentimes, allocation being, in theory, the result of the State’s decision. Appealing to the market itself for the distribution some administrative authorizations shifts this paradigm. The administrative authorization becomes itself the subject of the market that it supposedly regulates. With this ambivalence having been underlined, the durability of the State’s control over administrative authorizations can be questioned when the market itself determines the authorizations’ distribution. While this evolution could benefit the process of economic regulation with the introduction of its resource distribution model, it could simultaneously reflect the submission of State regulation to the law of the market, through the use of the administrative authorization.

Master's thesis "EU agreements with South Korea and Japan and their impact on the European market" analyzes the impact of trade agreements between the European Union and South Korea and Japan on the EU industrial competitiveness. The impact is evaluated in terms of the development of trade flows with chemical, food, textile and automotive products and also in terms of the existence and reduction of non-tariff barriers. The study also includes trade balances developments between the respective countries. The results of the analysis showcase the overall positive impact of the agreement with South Korea on the EU industrial competitiveness and predict the impact of the agreement with Japan.

This thesis deals with the topic of international arms trade. More particularly, it deals with the arms trade in three chosen countries - the United States, Sweden and Russia. In general, this work brings coherent data and analyzes the arms trade issue, especially in the countries chosen for this academic work. The aim is to present arms trade problematics of these three countries to the reader as well as to bring the valuable analyzes on the chosen topic and finally to compare the case countries in order to find the differences and common characteristics. The main goal of this thesis is to find the answers on the research questions. The two most important research questions are: What are the current trends and future of the international arms trade in the U.S., Sweden and Russia? How does the arms trade differ in these countries? The first research question is focused on present and future development of arms trade, on the other hand second one gives partially comparative nature to the thesis. The thesis is based on comparative case study method. Through the deep examination of this three case countries the work comes to the answers designed in the research questions. Thesis concludes the raising importance of the arms trade as the instrument of influence. In addition, growing of volume of arms...