The thesis deals with the question of existence of long-term governmental integration concepts regarding national minorities and foreigners. The thesis analyses theoretical integration concepts, their types and their development. It describes national minorities living in the territory of the Czech Republic. It follows the creation and development of the governmental institutional structure for solving the issues of minorities and deals with the analysis of development of the legal framework and of governmental concepts regarding foreigners, national minorities and separately the Roma minority stressing concepts' quality and linkup. The goal of the thesis is to answer the question if the long-term concept regarding these issues exists, to what extent is the concept sophisticated, coherent and how continuously/discontinuously is the concept been promoted.

This diploma thesis seeks to summarize the institutional development taken by the European Union so far (with a particular view to the changes brought about by the Treaty of Lisbon), and, based on this, to provide an assessment of the direction into which the European Union is headed at the beginning of this decade. Within this context, my thesis attempts to outline the various alternative scenarios for the future development of the EU's institutional framework; the likely candidates, to put it simply, are, on the one hand, even deeper integration in the form of a fiscal and political union, or, conversely, the abandonment of the idea of closer cooperation. Since the beginnings of the 1950s, the European Communities and, later, the European Union have been developing towards ever-increasing integration. Even today, one observes obvious tendencies towards intensifying this integration. However, this does not allow for the unambiguous conclusion that the European Union must result in the creation of a fiscal and political union. It is perfectly conceivable that the elected political representatives of individual member states may assume the opposite view, and that tendencies will prevail within the European Union towards a more informal collaboration among separate countries. The present work also attempts a comparison of the views held by politicians, political scientists, analysts, and intellectuals. One finds that even these authors do not arrive at clear-cut conclusions, nor should one expect them to be able to make such conclusions. This thesis draws attention to a number of contradictory aspects - chiefly among them the violation of the Maastricht criteria, and the obvious breach of Article 125 of the Treaty of Lisbon, which prohibits mutual financial assistance.

The dissertation deals with the issue of the corporate identity of the Academy of Sciences of the CR (ASCR). Through secondary and primary qualitative and quantitative research projects, the corporate identity of the ASCR is analysed in the internal and external milieus of the institution, in the European Area generally and also in comparison with Great Britain. The main aim of the dissertation is the proposal of a model of the corporate identity of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic with a focus on the area of science popularisation and communication, namely for the purpose of improving the image of the ASCR and increasing the awareness of the general beneficial effect of science and research among the lay and specialised public in the Czech Republic. The proposal of the model is elaborated on its theoretical bases utilising background materials arising from the research projects conducted. The enrichment of the Czech scientific milieu by a deeper view into the general issue and an investigation of corporate identity in the CR and globally can be considered as the contribution of the dissertation in the area of the theory of marketing. The theoretical contribution of the work is also the proposal of a model of corporate identity for the ASCR and the other scientific-research institutions with a similar focus. The practical contribution of the dissertation is the possible utilisation of the proposed model of the corporate identity of the ASCR at the Academy of Sciences of the CR, at the scientific workplaces of the ASCR and at the other scientific-research institutions of a similar focus in the CR and around the world.

This thesis deals with the financial system of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The main area of interest are economic characteristics of the country, important sectors of the british economy, economic condition, and recession, which was started by the financial crisis. The thesis also concentrates on the very structure of the financial system of United Kingdom. The major part is mainly focused on financial institutions, specifically on the banking sector, including its historical development. In this thesis are described troubles of banking institutions after the outbreak of the financial crisis, also are described origins of these problems, their impact on the financial system and a many of measures that had to be established because of ensuring stabilization and protection of the brithis financial system. This thesis also deals with the insurance sector and british financial markets. The conclusion of this thesis describes the regulation and supervision in the United Kingdom and upcoming reform that will significantly changes the current structure of british regulation, the main aim is increased efficiency and prevent from repeating mistakes of the past.

Práce se zaměřila na hodnocení fiskální politiky v Evropské unii. V prvé části jsme shrnuli vývoj fiskální politiky a názory ekonomický směrů na ni. Druhá část se věnuje vybraným problémem fiskální politiky. Je řešena otázka optimálního fiskálního pravidla. Ve třetí části práce je zachycen vývoj v eurozóně. Poslední část se zabývá alternativami pro omezení fiskální politiky v eurozóně.

Religion and post-communist transition are two of the many issues that have earned attention of economists and social scientist in the recent decades. This dissertation collects three papers dealing with different issues concerning religion and the transition. The first one attempts to assess the role of religion in the transition and its impact on country's success in this process; it also outlines opportunities for research in this field. The second paper tries to uncover the role of religion in formation of economic and social attitudes of the people in post-communist countries. Both papers conclude that religion matters; Western Christianity appears to be more compatible with market economy than Orthodox Christianity and Islam, although these two religions are not necessarily an obstacle. Finally, the third paper deals with religious participation in post-communist countries. It shows that religious behavior is not completely independent of economic conditions and religious revivals in the post-communist era can be interpreted in economic terms.

Bank Recovery and Resolution Abstract and keywords This diploma thesis systematically presents the European regulatory framework of recovery procedures and resolution of credit institutions and investment firms (BRRD), in the form of a directive, implemented into the Czech law in Act No. 374/2015 Coll., on recovery procedures and resolution on the financial markets. At the same time, the first major amendment to this directive, the so-called BRRD2, is incorporated into this thesis, which mainly implements the international standard of FSB for the specification of the total loss absorbing capacity into the EU law. The work is divided into 5 parts. The first part monitors the background of the BRRD, discusses the causes of the Global Financial Crisis, and what we deduce from them, and then discusses the global regulatory response to this crisis. The second chapter places the BRRD in a broader context within the Banking Union and presents its structure. The Banking Union is built on a single set of rules and is divided into two (in the future three) pillars. These are a single supervisory mechanism and a single resolution mechanism. The third part is where the introduction of the legislation itself begins; it starts with providing the information for the general requirements of the procedures under this...

v anglickém jazyce Despite the market relevance and cross-border operations of numerous credit and other financial institutions, the recent global financial crisis has clearly demonstrated that even the most significant conglomerates of the financial sector are not safe from the threat insolvency. Given cross-border activities of these institutions, any resolution of their market failure requires a comprehensive approach, inevitably facing also complexities arising from the presence of an international element. In this regard, this work examines persisting pitfalls pertaining to determination of international jurisdiction and applicable law, considering specific principles that govern current regulation of international insolvencies of credit institutions in conjunction with fundamental principles of universality and territoriality. With reference to existing case law, it is shown that despite the dogmatic dominance of the universality principle, the international solution of the insolvency of credit institutions still clashes with significant territorialism tendencies. Given the unique position of credit institutions and their systemic importance for financial stability, their resolution has traditionally been entrusted to supervisory authorities with competence. As a result, credit institutions...

The purpose of this thesis is to implement the gravity model approach to identify and quantify determinants of bilateral trade flows of Germany and its trading partners, while focusing on the effect of institutions. Based on various gravity model techniques (clustered pooled OLS, Poisson Pseudo-Maximum Likelihood estimation, Hausman and Taylor estimation and Instrumental Variables regression), we have confirmed that the quality of institutions have a signifiant and positive effect on German exports. Depending on model specification and estimation technique, some institutions seem to effect German export more than others. We see the Hausman and Taylor estimator advisable for addressing endogeneity of institutions.

This diploma thesis deals with the evaluation of the quality of institutions illustrated with example the risk of corruption in public procurement, and the impact of the quality of institutions on the regional competitiveness. Specifically, it focuses on the relationship between corruption risk in public procurement and indicators of the quality of government, economic performance and innovation performance. The theoretical part deals with the role of institutions in regional development, and institutional factors influencing the competitiveness and innovation performance of regions, as well as corruption and its manifestations in public procurement. The empirical part presents the European interregional differences in the level of corruption in public procurement, and the impact of corruption in public procurement on the quality of government, economic performance and innovation performance. Research shows the corruption in public procurement determines the quality of government across European regions, especially in Western and Central Europe. On the other hand, corruption in public procurement has little effect on the economic and innovation performance of regions. Key worlds: institution, innovation, competitiveness, corruption, public procurement