This thesis deals with the influence of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the competitiveness of the selected region in the Czech Republic. Thesis is divided into three chapters. The first chapter is devoted to the competitiveness and FDI in general. The chapter gives a definition of competitiveness and describes localization factors and effects of FDI on the host economy. The second chapter focuses on foreign direct investment in the Czech Republic. It outlines the historical development of FDI, their territorial and branch structure and the government support of the FDI inflow. The third chapter describes the Moravian-Silesian region as an investment location and analyzes the impact of FDI on the competitiveness of the region. The analysis is comprised of a comparison of FDI development and the development of selected macroeconomic indicators.

The topic of the this thesis is the analysis of further action of the companies located in Industrial zone "Karviná -- Nové Pole". There is made an analysis using the criteria of individual companies operating in industrial zone "Nové Pole" which are threatened by expansion of coal mining in the case of breaking the existing limits. The introductory part deals with basic terminology related to industrial zones, different types of zones and legislation associated with their construction. The theoretical part also focuses on support the development of industrial zones and the systém of investment incentives on the Moravian-Silesian Region. Practical part is about the evaluation of current situation of particular companies and the result is that companies will be more or less interested in staying in industrial zone "Nové Pole".

In a competitive and increasingly internationalized business world, many companies rely on the high risk of operating in unstable areas. Those companies willing to engage in other countries can often be exposed to a politically volatile environment over which they have little control. I focused in this thesis on political risk, because it is one of the most hazardous challenges that an international business can face. Although political risk is not a new phenomenon, concern over it has increased significantly in recent years. This new prominence has been reflected in an outpouring of articles on the subject in the business press, wider academic attention, commitment of resources to access political risk by a significant number of international firms, and large number of consulting firms offering services to help management to come to grips with political problem abroad. Political risk as potentially significant managerial contingencies is generated by political events and processes. But that statement begs a number of important questions. First, and perhaps the least tractable, is the scope of the relevant environment in terms of the specific meaning attached to political events and processes. Second, defining political risk in terms of contingencies suggests the presence of uncertainty. Third question is, whether political risk discourage Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The accurate assessment of political risk can make the difference between success and failure for the company. While environmental or political risk assessment has become an explicit function in many companies and is inherent in all foreign investment, the uncertain ties of foreign political environments continue to pose critical problems for managers. This thesis also aims to provide space for theoretical support to political risk assessment. It explores methods, institutional and organizational basis of political risk assessment. Last chapter is devoted to looking at the political risk problems in Brazil, and the risks that firms might face by doing business in the country. With growth set to continue, it has been forecast that by 2025 Brazil will become the world's fifth largest economy, overtaking Britain and France, while Sao Paulo will rank higher than Paris and Shanghai as the world's sixth wealthiest city. Many of investors see growth opportunities in Brazil's mining, energy, and agriculture sectors. Infrastructure presents another opportunity. With the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics being held in the country, many companies in the communications and tourism industries stand to reap the rewards.

The object of this thesis is the description of foreign direct and portfolio investment flows between European Union and Brazil and consequent evaluation of these flows regarding global affairs, development in the economic sectors and business obstacles. It is followed by estimation of investment flows between this subjects in the future. The thesis is based on statistical data of Eurostat, International Monetary Fund and brazilian central bank.

International tax planning deals with the tax benefits, their seeking and using by the tax entities and corporations. Even if the tax havens are generally considered as small islands, the different types of tax advantages are offered by the developed countries of the North America or Europe. This paper focuses on the analysis of the inward of foreign direct investments into the European countries with the preferential tax regimes. It explains the relationship between the inward of the investments and the factors which affect them. The inward of the foreign direct investments is the dependent variable, the independent variables are tax rates on corporate income, unemployment, as well as political stability. Although results of econometric analysis did not confirm our initial hypothesis that the lower tax burden will increase the inward of the investments to the country, this increase can be caused under the other circumstances, such as secrecy, property protection, stable political situation or simplicity and utility of the financial markets.

The author is concerned with the issue of inequality in emerging countries. In the last 30 years these countries started to heavily rely upon FDI, as it forms a great part of their GDPs. The social and economic consequences of inequalities in these countries might be severe therefore it is crucial to find out what is the impact of FDI.

The foreign direct investment (FDI)nowadays play an important role in the world economy. Canada is one of the traditional investors in the Czech Republic, therefore this thesis informs in detail about those investment. The aim of my master thesis is analysing the Canadian FDI in the Czech Republic. This thesis should provide its readers with a view of sector structure as well as investment incentives granted to canadian investors. In this paper I also mention the topic of projected gold mining in the Mokrsko area.

The world is globalizing and so are the businesses within. Today a more integrated global economy increases the usage of foreign direct investments to a larger extent than ever before. In recent decades a shift of the perception of foreign direct investments has occurred from being something negative and disadvantageous for the host market to a more positive and advantageous opportunity for emerging markets. Historically, foreign direct investments were seen as capital movement between developed countries to increase market shares, nowadays, foreign direct investments are more focused on emerging markets to manufacture products at a lower cost and exploit the natural resources. The real effects and implications of foreign direct investments for the host country are a contested topic within the research field. Both positive and negative effects can be found in previous research. In this thesis, the focus is on understanding the effects that foreign direct investment has on emerging markets. This is conducted by analyzing relevant statistical data for a 10-year period and compare the findings against the perception of this phenomenon in previous research. The outcome of this study shows both positive and negative effects derived from FDI can be found by analyzing the collected data. The real effects of foreign direct investments are limited since several factors could be a key driver behind the changes of the measured effects. Nonetheless, in some analyzed changes there is a possibility to see patterns that correlate with inward foreign direct investments.

Inflows of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Foreign Portfolio Investment (FPI) into Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) between 2000 and 2014 remained a minute fraction (at only 2% and 1% respectively) of global inflows. This study seeks to explain this phenomenon by examining the push (global) and pull (domestic) factors that may help to explain inflows of FDI and FPI in SSA and the mechanisms through which these factors affect inflows (the how). As ongoing regional integration efforts in Africa through trading blocs, the study also discusses the role of regional trading blocs in explaining capital flows into SSA. In the process, the research challenges some of the established theories and contributes to policy for managing international capital inflows. The study identifies possible explanatory variables from existing theory and empirical studies. Data on possible determinants of FDI and FPI is largely extracted from the World Bank and IMF databases. The determinants considered are macro-economic, infrastructural, institutional, resource endowment and geographical related. These are modeled into econometric model of FDI and FPI. Several hypotheses on the possible determinants are then tested using panel regressions with random effects. The results indicate that SSA's FDI during the period reviewed is mainly pulled by macroeconomic dynamics, infrastructure and human resources factors and pushed by global macroeconomic performance. Likewise, FPI is largely pulled by GDP and infrastructure factors. The results further show that FDI and FPI inflows in regional trading blocs of SADC, COMESA and ECOWAS are affected by different risk, return, macroeconomic, trade and distance factors. The effects of factors such as distance and macroeconomic factors also vary across the regional trading blocs, suggesting their importance of these blocs in capital flows.

Magister Legum - LLM / This thesis seeks to unpack the measures and structures that a developing nation can put into place to establish itself as a good investment destination. It discusses the three theories of corporate governance, and how the adoption of the Enlightened Shareholder approach is the ideal theory for developing economies to adopt. It reviews the practices of the Republic of South Africa and the Peoples Republic of China to investigate what developing nations can learn from their legislation. The purpose of this thesis is to identity strong areas of corporate governance to better assist developing nations in their establishment of their corporate governance measures.