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Disertační práce zkoumá současnou globální nerovnost, její trendy, typy a faktory. Učiněné závěry jsou podloženy vlastní regresní analýzou konvergence, kdy je zkoumána především závislost počátečního HDP na obyvatele a růstu HDP na obyvatele v rámci různých skupin zemí. Jednak byla provedena analýza absolutní/alfa konvergence a jednak analýzy podmíněné/beta konvergence. Zejména výsledky analýz beta konvergence ukazují zajímavé skutečnosti o faktorech konvergence a o možnostech snižování nerovnosti. Práce poskytuje rovněž přehled teorií konvergence od počátku novodobé globalizace a platnost teorií je zhodnocena na základě výsledků zmíněné regresní analýzy.

Aim of this thesis is to evaluate impact of foreign direct investments on convergence/divergence of the Visegrad four to EU15. Theoretical part contains necessary knowledge to execute this evaluation and includes review of empirical research employed with impact of FDI on economic growth. In first part of empirical analysis beta-convergence model is used to discover convergence of observed countries during period 1995-2015. Estimation uses OLS regression. The results show successful convergence of V4 to EU15. Afterwards there is analysis of impact of FDI on economic growth for the same period. Four models with escalating difficulty were used to evaluate this impact by using panel data regression. Pooled OLS and fixed effects are methods used in this regression. In the last model, more EU transition countries are included to confirm one of investigated hypotheses. Results of this analysis show significant and positive impact of FDI on economic growth in EU transitive economies. Using only V4 countries, I did not find out this impact to be significant. At last, all results are evaluated and given to mutual context. Recommendations to economic policy makers are included as well.

The aim of this thesis, thats title is "The monetary policy of the Czech national bank and the prospects of euro adoption. Meeting the Maastricht monetary criteria and possible complications.", is answer the question whether the Czech Republic is ready now to adopt the common european currency (euro) or not. This thesis is divided into three parts. The first part pays attention to the monetary policy of the Czech national bank in connection with the entrance of the Czech Republic into the euro area and other parts deal with the convergence of the Czech Republic to the euro area. The second part discusses the convergence from the perspective of meeting the Maastricht monetary criteria and the third part deals with the real convergence. My conclusion is that the Czech Republic is not ready now to adopt euro and should wait with the adoption of a common european currency till the moment when is prepared better.

Diplomová práce se zabývá problematikou přistoupení České republiky k EMU. Na začátku práce je krátce popsán vznik EMU. Jádrem práce je připravenost ekonomiky na přijetí společné měny, stupeň dosažené hospodářské konvergence k Evropské unii a porovnání s ostatními státy střední a východní Evropy. Na konci práce je naznačen vývoj konvergence Slovinska a Slovenska.

The subject of thesis the Comparison of economic development of Slovakia and Estonia before and after the entry into euro zone, is a comprehensive analysis of the economic development of Estonia and Slovakia throughout the course of the integration process in the euro zone from 2004 to 2011. The first chapter reviews the theoretical bases of the work and discussed the theoretical bases of the processes of nominal and real convergence. In the introductory part is defined the concept of nominal convergence in the context of monetary integration and introduce each of the Maastricht criteria and its own set of macroeconomic indicators, on the bases of which ought to the development of Estonia and Slovakia in the analytical part of the work. The second part of the work is focused on the evaluation of the development of nominal and real convergence of the Estonia and Slovak economy to the states of the euro area and with each other on the basis of the development of selected indicators. The third part of the work deals with the final summary and comparison economic development ongoing nominal and real convergence in Estonia and Slovakia and assessment of the decision the timing of entry Estonia and Slovakia into the euro area.

The aim of the work is to evaluate the process of nominal and real convergence in Slovakia. Furthermore, the introduction is addressed the macroeconomic development since the beginning of the separate state and evaluates it in the context of the accession to the euroarea. After posttransformating stabilization Slovakia was unable to start the successful economic development. Thanks to the adoption of restrictive measures and several reform steps since 1998 Slovakia managed to achieve a gradual healthy economic growth and improvement of macroeconomic indicators, which culminated in 2008. However in the end of the year hit Slovakia the first sign of cooling due to global economic crisis and because of this fact the work offers a short view of the fortcomming uncertain future. Nominal convergence represents within the European union the Maastricht criteria, Slovakia fullfilled them in March 2008 with caution. The real convergence is evaluated in the light of the indicator of GDP per capita in purchasing power parity, which development has seen in recent years a remarkable increase in Slovakia. Adoption of the common european currency does not mean to meat the formal Maastricht criteria but also requires the adoption of the various substantive aspects, such as Slovakia National Plan for euro.

The thesis covers the topic of nominal convergence in terms of Maastricht convergence criteria applied to Baltic States, followed by multicriteria analysis of real convergence.

This diploma thesis deals with the impacts of financial and economic crisis on thirty-eight NUTS 2 regions of Germany. This includes identifying trends in regional convergence/divergence for the reference period 2004-2013 and determining the probable cause of observed disparities. For this purpose, cluster analysis and beta-convergence analysis are applied and conducted for the periods before and at the start of the financial crisis and during the outbreak of the economic crisis and after its overcoming. The impacts of the crisis on economic development of each region are also investigated by using important macroeconomic indicators.

SKYVOVÁ, BARBORA. Consequences of Economic Crisis on autonomous communities and cities in Spain. Diploma thesis. Brno: Mendel University, 2017. The diploma thesis focuses on impacts of the economic crisis (2008-2009) on seventeen autonomous communities and two autonomous cities of Spain. beta-convergence analysis and cluster analysis are applied to identify convergence or divergence process among Spanish regions within periods 2000-2007 and 2008-2015. Differences among regions are found out and economic situation is defined by macroeconomic indicators.