As it implies from the title, aim of this thesis is to compare Czech and German insolvency law and find out differences, also on the practical level. Motivation to choose these countries came from facts, that both countries are economically connected and German law is traditional source of Czech law. Another aim is to find out, if the law of our western neighbours can be inspiration also for future changes to relatively new insolvency law in Czech. Because the title of this thesis is rather general, it was necessary to specify the content of this thesis with choosing main points. These are discharge from debts, reorganisation and insolvency administrator seen as a profession. Aim of this thesis is not to cover the insolvency law complexly. Thesis is divided into eleven chapters. First chapter is introduction and clears aims of this thesis. Second and third chapter describes the introduction to German insolvency law, which fairly overlaps the introduction to Czech insolvency law. Selected differences are mentioned in fourth chapter. Chapters five to seven are containing the main themes of this thesis, and these chapters are divided into subchapters with German law, Czech law and subchapter with comparison. The chapter about discharge from debts is rather extensive, because the concept of this legal...

This diploma thesis describes the main specifics of position of spouses in insolvency proceedings, which is recently more and more relevant, but there is a lot of application and interpretation ambiguilties, which are related with this topic. This problem is by degrees solved by case law. The content of the diploma thesis is divided into four chapters. In the first chapter, the author gives a brief description of the history of the insolvency proceedings. The author's attention is paid especially to the regulation, which preceded the force of the Act. No. 294/2013 Coll., which changes the Act No. 186/2006 Coll., on insolvency and its solution modes (Insolvency Act) and Act No. 312/2006 Coll., on insolvency administrators. The emphasis is placed on the three ways of discharge of debts, which were possible for spouses in that time. The second chapter, defines terms, that are closely related to the topic and are necessary for further treatise of insolvency proceedings. These are marriage, common property of the spouses, insolvency proceedings and its solution modes. The third and also the main chapter of the whole work is devoted to discharge of debts of spouses. It is a relatively new institute, which was regulated by the Act No. 294/2013 Coll., which changes the Act No. 186/2006 Coll., on insolvency...

Magister Commercii - MCom / This study attempted to examine the nature of the relationship between high levels of external debt and capital accumulation with the case study of Rwanda. / South Africa

The study analyses the concepts of intergenerational equity and fiscal sustainability in South Africa. The question raised is whether or not South Africa can adopt stimulatory fiscal measures, with a simultaneous increase in debt, so as to improve long-term growth potential in a sustainable manner without creating an excessive burden on future generations. The debate surrounding the use of stimulatory fiscal policy has come to the fore once again as monetary policy has become a restricted and ineffective macroeconomic policy tool in certain countries after the world-wide financial crisis and the Euro-debt crisis. Fiscal sustainability risks and high debt levels remain a source of concern in the United States and the Euro-zone, while South Africa presently seems to be at no great risk. With South Africa’s intention to become a developmental state, the use and appropriateness of fiscal policy is considered. An overlapping-generations model is used to determine whether or not future generations will be burdened due to current stimulatory policy. The use of fiscal rules in South Africa is discussed and considered in light of various political incentives and constraints. The conclusion given is that the possible use of a procedural fiscal rule, such as the ‘golden rule’, may add credibility to the current regime, while a numerical fiscal rule is seen as unnecessary given South Africa’s responsible use of fiscal policy thus far. As it stands, there is little possibility or risk that the public debt in South Africa will become too high in the near future. Although South Africa has been affected by the crisis, the developmental nature of the economy has been sustained through the use of responsible discretionary fiscal policy, putting South Africa in a positive position to meet its long-run growth potential.

The debt-for democracy hypothesis is that undemocratic governments were largely responsible for not only the accumulation but also poor management of externally sourced capital resources. External borrowing had therefore failed to lead to growth of the economies of debtor countries under undemocratic political leadership. Despite this explanation of the debt problem conventional empirical analyses of the debt-growth relationship did not include political institutional variables. This study investigates the relationship between democratization and debt-led growth, using Nigeria, a typical debtor country whose politics was dominated by 'undemocratic ' governance, as a case study. Two broad research questions are investigated namely, whether available data support a negative or positive contribution of debt to the growth of the Nigeria economy during the period 1970-2000; and ifso was there any link between the levels of democratization in Nigeria and debt-led growth. Using a census of major political events in Nigeria around four dimensions of democratization, four primary indices of democratization and one composite index were constructed for the period. Using the Taylor (1983) marginal conditions to gauge the contribution of external debt to the growth of the Nigerian economy, the study found that external debt is capable of playing a double edged sword on the performance of the economy. Positive contributions coincided with the periods when Nigeria's oil dominated foreign exchange revenues were robust, and/ or when debt management strategies were better articulated and vice versa. The analyses of the link between democratization and debt-led growth using both correlation and regression techniques, yielded different results in two definitional contexts of debt-led growth. When defined purely in terms of the Taylor marginal conditions for a positive contribution of debt to the economy of a borrowing nation, the results support the pessimist view that democratization impeded growth. On the contrary, when debt-led growth was defined in a broader sense to incorporate variables such as domestic savings and investment, foreign direct investments, public and private consumption and debt burden, there was strong evidence that debt-led growth performed beller at higher levels of democratization than other wise. The result using the narrow definition was found to be a direct consequence of the overriding influence of export performance in the Taylor conditions. With Nigeria's exports almost entirely dominated by extractive industry the result derived using the narrow definition confirmed the theoretical links between natural resource endowment and regime type on the one hand, and external capital and the nature of the host country 's industry on the other. In the first resource dependence allowed the political leadership to be more detached and less accountable to the electorate since they did not need to levy taxes. Secondly foreign investors concerned with security of their sunk investments in the extractive oil induslly in particular favoured continuity of powerfol regimes with less democratic content. In both findings one thing was common: democratization was associated more with those factors whose decreases affect growth positively than with those whose increases improve growth. The conclusion from this is that the impact of democratization is stronger with negative than with positive growth factors. In other words, while democratization may be supportive of growth its greater impact appears to be in limiting the factors that themselves limit growth. To benefit from the favourable impact of democratisation on debt-led growth therefore the study suggests that improvements in the democratisation process in Nigeria is needed It identifies political education as central to this improvement. A model is developed to show how improvements in the political institutional framework may trickle down, through an enabling environment that is capable of engendering growth-enhancing domestic and international responses to lead in the direction of debt-led growth.

The research took the form of a qualitative interpretative case study focusing on the study sample of 9 municipal officials responsible for monitoring the payment of government debt as the consumer type. Data was collected through face to face interviews by means of completing the questionnaire based on the responses from the respondent. The study examined the underlying and related causes of non-payment of government debt. The study revealed that municipalities in the Eastern Cape lack support from the other spheres of government in ensuring timeous payments of outstanding debt. Growth in debtors indicated the failure by the municipalities to implement proper debt management processes and the lack of political will to collect debts. The study recommended that municipalities need to waive interest on disputed debt and the debt in that regard be reported on the suspense account to avoid over estimation or debt that might not be recovered in the long run.

Persistent government budget deficits and government debt have become major concerns in both developed and developing countries. This study investigates the impact of a budget deficit on transport infrastructure investment in South Africa. Quarterly time series data, covering the period 1990q1- 2009q4, was used in this project. The study tests for stationarity using the Augmented Dickey- Fuller and Phillips Perron; it tests for cointegration using the Johansen (1991, 1995) methodology. A vector error correction model is used as an estimation technique. The results of this study show that a budget deficit has a negative impact on transport infrastructure investment in South Africa.

The diploma thesis Development analysis of consumer loans in the Czech Republic and Slovakia describes the development and the structure of household debts in the Czech and Slovak Republic with major focus on the consumer loans development in both countries. Theoretical part is dedicated to the determination of different loan products for households, and the description of legislation related to consumer loans in both countries. The analysis of each market observes household debts and the development of consumer loans. The development is compared with elementary bank and macroeconomics measures which mostly influence demand for consumer loans. The final part focuses on the comparison of the results and findings between Czech and Slovak market.

The thesis assesses the financial and economic situation of the company Balky, s. r.o. based on selected methods of financial analysis. For financial analysis, business data is used from the period 2007 - 2009. It includes proposals of solutions to improve the current financial situation.

Depuis la crise financière de 2008, la Commission a actualisé régulièrement les règles de l'Union européenne en matière d'aide d'Etat, en adoptant des « communications liées à la crise », dans l’objectif d’instaurer un cadre général de résolution des difficultés du secteur bancaire et de fournir des orientations détaillées concernant les critères de compatibilité avec le marché intérieur. Dans le cadre de la gestion de la crise des dettes souveraines, le déploiement des solidarités financières et monétaires, perçues comme des transcendances de l’intérêt général, a constitué, dans le champ substantiel, des conditions de légalité des actions étatiques et européennes en matière de stabilité et d’assistance financière. En outre, les réponses institutionnelles et étatiques se sont traduites par des réformes successives visant à remodeler le cadre réglementaire européen, en vue d’un renforcement du volet préventif du PSC, ainsi que d’une action corrective plus rigoureuse des politiques économiques et budgétaires dans le volet correctif. Par ailleurs, l’accumulation des déséquilibres macroéconomiques et financiers a révélé l’importance de renforcer les instruments de coordination et de surveillance des politiques structurelles et conjoncturelles, afin que les politiques budgétaires soient à long terme bénéfiques pour la croissance des Etats membres de l’Union. En outre, la contagion et les impacts de la crise bancaire de 2008 sur les marchés d'obligations ont conduit l’Union européenne à renforcer les exigences prudentielles applicables aux institutions financières et à adopter des mesures décisives en matière de réglementation et de surveillance financière. / Since the financial crisis of 2008, the Commission has regularly updated the EU rules on State aid, adopting « crisis-related communications », with the intention of establishing a general framework for Resolution of the difficulties of the banking sector and to provide detailed guidance on the criteria for compatibility with the internal market. In the management context of the sovereign debt crisis, the deployment of financial and monetary solidarities, perceived as supremacies of the general interest, constituted, in the substantial field, conditions for the legality of State and European Stability and financial assistance. In addition, institutional and governmental responses have resulted in successive reforms intended at reshaping the European regulatory framework, with a view to strengthening the preventive arm of the Stability Growth Pact (SGP), as well as corrective and rigorous economic action. Moreover, the accumulation of macroeconomic and financial imbalances has revealed the importance of strengthening the instruments for coordinating and monitoring structural and cyclical policies in order, for the budgetary policies to be beneficial for the growth of the Member States in the long term, Union. Moreover, the spread and the impact of the banking crisis of 2008 on the bond markets that have led the European Union to strengthen prudential requirements for financial institutions, and to adopt decisive measures in the field of regulation and financial supervision.