This thesis will examine possible determinants of Federal Reserve behavior during the Great Depression. It starts with the assumption that economic variables alone are unsatisfactory in determining Federal Reserve policy choices. Various explanations are then offered and examined. The role of elections, partisanship, and regional variation are examined. After these possibilities are tested, the conclusions will be analyzed and suggestions for further research will be considered. / Master of Arts

Diss. (sammanfattning) Stockholm : Karolinska institutet, 2006. / Härtill 5 uppsatser.

The main purpose of this thesis is to analyze and compare the economic development of Finland and Sweden with the emphasis of the current economic crisis. The first chapter presents basic characteristics of both economies and their development till 2008. The second chapter shows the development of both economies from the beginning of the crisis until now. The chapter is divided into sub-chapters that analyze individual economic indicators.

Lançado em 1916, A casa de penhores é uma síntese dos curtas-metragens de Chaplin e funciona como um laboratório cômico, no qual o artista e sua equipe desenvolvem experimentos subversivos, desafiando valores burgueses. O primeiro capítulo desta dissertação apresenta uma análise de A casa de penhores, seu contexto e suas afinidades eletivas com o surrealismo francês, a biomecânica desenvolvida por Meyerhold e o teatro épico de Brecht, mostrando o potencial revolucionário do cinema num tempo de crescentes conflitos entre capital e trabalho. Essa análise detalhada fornece outra perspectiva para Tempos Modernos (que discutimos no capítulo dois), diferente de uma teleológica. Lançado vinte anos depois, em 1936, Tempos Modernos é o último filme silencioso de Chaplin. Nessa obra, Chaplin reflete sobre o fordismo, a mecanização do homem, os problemas sociais da Grande Depressão e as contradições do capitalismo. E, através da autorreferencialidade, o filme tenta sabotar o sistema, refuncionalizando-o num sentido progressista. / Released in 1916, The Pawnshop is a synthesis of Chaplins short-films and functions as a comic laboratory, in which the artist and his crew develop subversive experiments, that defy bourgeois values. The first chapter of this dissertation presents an analysis of The Pawnshop, its context and its elective affinities to French surrealism, as well as the biomechanics developed by Meyerhold and Brechts epic theater in order to show the revolutionary potential of cinema in a time of increasing clashes between capital and labor. This detailed analysis provides another perspective to Modern Times (which we discuss in the chapter two), different than a teleological one. Released twenty years later, in 1936, Modern Times is Chaplins last silent film. In this work, Chaplin reflects on fordism, the mechanization of man, the social problems of the Great Depression and the contradictions of capitalism. And through self referentiality, the film tries to sabotage the system, refunctioning it in a progressive way.

Lançado em 1916, A casa de penhores é uma síntese dos curtas-metragens de Chaplin e funciona como um laboratório cômico, no qual o artista e sua equipe desenvolvem experimentos subversivos, desafiando valores burgueses. O primeiro capítulo desta dissertação apresenta uma análise de A casa de penhores, seu contexto e suas afinidades eletivas com o surrealismo francês, a biomecânica desenvolvida por Meyerhold e o teatro épico de Brecht, mostrando o potencial revolucionário do cinema num tempo de crescentes conflitos entre capital e trabalho. Essa análise detalhada fornece outra perspectiva para Tempos Modernos (que discutimos no capítulo dois), diferente de uma teleológica. Lançado vinte anos depois, em 1936, Tempos Modernos é o último filme silencioso de Chaplin. Nessa obra, Chaplin reflete sobre o fordismo, a mecanização do homem, os problemas sociais da Grande Depressão e as contradições do capitalismo. E, através da autorreferencialidade, o filme tenta sabotar o sistema, refuncionalizando-o num sentido progressista. / Released in 1916, The Pawnshop is a synthesis of Chaplins short-films and functions as a comic laboratory, in which the artist and his crew develop subversive experiments, that defy bourgeois values. The first chapter of this dissertation presents an analysis of The Pawnshop, its context and its elective affinities to French surrealism, as well as the biomechanics developed by Meyerhold and Brechts epic theater in order to show the revolutionary potential of cinema in a time of increasing clashes between capital and labor. This detailed analysis provides another perspective to Modern Times (which we discuss in the chapter two), different than a teleological one. Released twenty years later, in 1936, Modern Times is Chaplins last silent film. In this work, Chaplin reflects on fordism, the mechanization of man, the social problems of the Great Depression and the contradictions of capitalism. And through self referentiality, the film tries to sabotage the system, refunctioning it in a progressive way.

My diploma thesis proposes a marketing strategy which helps firm PANDOS keep its place on the market and prevent from loosing its customers at the time of economic depression. This thesis contains external and internal analyse, including marketing mix analyse. The analytical part issues threats and opportunities. The proposal part consists of several steps against threats and ways of reaching opportunities.

This MA thesis deals with the actual situation of economic migration in the Czech Republic, the state institutions and non-profit organizations which operate in the field of labour migration and the interrelationship between non-profit organizations and state institutions. The aim of this thesis is to uncover how the global economic recession has influenced activities of state institutions and non-profit organizations which operate in this area. This thesis uses combination of qualitative methods of research.

<p>In 1939 a law was passed in Sweden which forbade employers to dismiss female employees because of marriage or pregnancy. In Germany a law had been introduced already in 1932, which gave employers the right to dismiss a woman when she married. It also gave women right to end their employment for the same reason. The political decisions behind these legal changes were in both cases the result of an extended debate on the right of employment of married women. This debate occurred in most industrialised European countries in the interwar period.</p><p>The increasing participation of women on the labour market was by some groups interpreted as a cause of mass unemployment. Economic crisis contributed to a crisis of masculinity, which then led to attacks on the rights of married women to paid employment. In Sweden there was a state commission set up in 1936 with the task of investigating women’s employment. This commission, <i>kvinnoarbetskommittén, </i>managed to demonstrate that dismissing women would not lead to a lowering of the unemployment figures for men, a task they accomplished through detailed studies of several labour market areas. The report of the commission guided the decision of parliament, a decision taken when the economic depression had already turned to a boom period. The composition of the commission as well as its work was a consequence of the strong influence of the Swedish women’s movement.</p><p>In Germany the rights of women to paid employment was limited already in 1923 as the result of the financial crisis of the state. During the depression the attacks on married women’s right to employment became a political tool, which could be used both in foreign and domestic policy. Dismissing married women employed as civil servants was aimed to quash the demands of unemployed men. A prime target in the foreign policy was to convince the victors of World War I that reparations exceeded the ability of the German nation, a nation which had been badly stricken by economic crisis and unemployment. With this argument a solution of the unemployment issue was given second priority.</p>

In 1939 a law was passed in Sweden which forbade employers to dismiss female employees because of marriage or pregnancy. In Germany a law had been introduced already in 1932, which gave employers the right to dismiss a woman when she married. It also gave women right to end their employment for the same reason. The political decisions behind these legal changes were in both cases the result of an extended debate on the right of employment of married women. This debate occurred in most industrialised European countries in the interwar period. The increasing participation of women on the labour market was by some groups interpreted as a cause of mass unemployment. Economic crisis contributed to a crisis of masculinity, which then led to attacks on the rights of married women to paid employment. In Sweden there was a state commission set up in 1936 with the task of investigating women’s employment. This commission, kvinnoarbetskommittén, managed to demonstrate that dismissing women would not lead to a lowering of the unemployment figures for men, a task they accomplished through detailed studies of several labour market areas. The report of the commission guided the decision of parliament, a decision taken when the economic depression had already turned to a boom period. The composition of the commission as well as its work was a consequence of the strong influence of the Swedish women’s movement. In Germany the rights of women to paid employment was limited already in 1923 as the result of the financial crisis of the state. During the depression the attacks on married women’s right to employment became a political tool, which could be used both in foreign and domestic policy. Dismissing married women employed as civil servants was aimed to quash the demands of unemployed men. A prime target in the foreign policy was to convince the victors of World War I that reparations exceeded the ability of the German nation, a nation which had been badly stricken by economic crisis and unemployment. With this argument a solution of the unemployment issue was given second priority.

The thesis deals with analysis of marketing strategy of Mod Desing s.r.o. The first part of the thesis is based on theoretical grounds. This part deals with the marketing in general and outlines the process of the strategic marketing planning. In the second, practical part of the thesis the theoretical knowledge is applied practically. There is the current market position analysis and the company´s marketing strategy. Based on this analysis and theoretical findings, the suitable measures to improve the competitive position of the company are recommended.