The goal of the diploma thesis is to describe the impact of the financial crisis on financial position of czech households and to compare it with households from EU.

This thesis "Influence of changes in the environment of a company on IT projects during the economic crisis" deals with the impact of outside influences and changes in the environment on the course and management of IT projects in a selected organization. The work is conceived as a case study in which three projects are analyzed. In the first two projects, not only the course of the projects is examined, but also the management of individual phases. The shortcomings and errors are then reflected in the proposed procedures of the third project. All stages are compared not only with theory, but also with best practice and the general modern trends in IT. In all three projects there are described in detail the activities in the project life-cycle phases and there are highlighted both good and bad decisions of the project managers. The thesis deals also with the impact of changes on the projects: with the reasons of the changes and the consequences for the projects. To achieve all the objectives, various analytical methods are used, such as observation -- from the point of view of a participant in the projects was evaluated their progress, practical interaction -- engaging in projects and mutual cooperation with the other players, analysis of documents -- from internal documentation to technical papers describing modern trends and, finally, socio-metric survey -- to reveal the impact of the changes on the end users of IS / IT. The contribution of the thesis should include, in the first place, a critical evaluation of the projects and suggestions of better solutions, application of theoretical knowledge in project management, comparison with best practice and latest trends, their discussion, and own research and interpretation of the impact of changes on end users.

I decided to dedicate my thesis to current crisis and to scrutinize reasons of the current crisis initiation. There is a theoretic point of view to the current crisis, in the first paragraph. Next paragraph has been dedicated to a scrutiny one of the previous crisis -- especially economic depression of the thirties. Following part is dedicated to the comprehensive September 2008 research and to the situation graduated afterwards. Last but not least has been described the position of International Monetary Fund. Main world market indexes have been scrutinized at the very end of the thesis, data have been compared and the results have been stipulated. There has been a complement in the thesis about the possibility for future development of the situation in real economy, as well as on the financial markets.

This work analyzes an interrelationship between stock indices S&P 500, FTSE 100, DAX, HSI, Nikkei, BSI and PX in a time period from September 2004 till March 2010. Such an interrelationship has already been examined and a dominating position of American indices has been found. This influence was stronger during a financial crisis. Because the examined time period covers both financial crisis and the period before, the work studies their interrelationship in the whole period and at the end in the time period before financial crisis. The influence of one stock index on the other can be cause by several factors: (i) dominance of influencing stock index, (ii) efficient market and (iii) financial crisis. As the reaction of stock index is evoked from new information, the intention of this work is to take into account nonsychronous trading of stocks exchanges. Therefore I explored those exchange stocks closing earlier than the others start in two ways by respecting the time lag and by non-respecting the time lag. The interrelationship between the indices was modeled with help of VAR models and proved by Granger causality test.

The goal of this work is to analyse advantages and limits of tax measures taken to fight the crisis in period 2008 to 2010. In this work are motives and consequences (economic stimulation vs. needed state budget income) described. To achieve the goal of this work next methods were used: literature review, analysis, comparison and deduction. The research is focused on tax measures taken to fight the crisis all over the world, then specially in the Czech Republic. The comparison of most frequent tax measures in EU and OECD shows the tendency to take the advantage of stimulation effect of lowering taxes (mostly corporate income tax and taxation of labour). In the analysis of concrete measures economic and tax theory, historical and foreign experience were used. Finally the tax measures taken in the Czech Republic are similar to the main stream all over the world. The Czech anti-crisis measures are focused on lowering taxes more than on government expenditures increasing. In 2009 we can see a tendency to lowering taxes in the Czech Republic. On the other hand emphasis on fiscal function of taxes begins to prevail in 2010.

This work analyses fiscal sustainability and position of old and new members of EU and offers some fiscal policy implications to deal with debt reduction in the aftermath of the current fiscal crisis in the EU. Fiscal policy of Old European countries is different from fiscal policy of the new members. Due to different historical development New European members have lower debt and lower GDP per capita. Many policymakers in New Europe tried to increase GDP of their countries by generating government deficits. On the other hand Old European countries are already having large debts and current fiscal crisis is one result of this fact. The recent fiscal crisis in Europe raised the question what is sustainable fiscal policy and how to achieve it. Sustainability of the policy can be divided into three groups: short term, medium term, and long term. In short term, fiscal policy is sustainable, when government is able to issue and sell government bonds. Otherwise it defaults. In medium term, fiscal policy is sustainable when debt to GDP ratio is constant or decreasing. Situation in long term is very similar to situation in medium term. The difference is in time. Long term fiscal policy is sustainable if debt to GDP ratio converges to some finite number. All the definitions are problematic and problem arises basically from fact that variables that are part of the definitions are volatile. Fiscal policy that might seem to be sustainable in times of economic expansion may become unsustainable even in short time. Exactly this thing happened in Ireland. Ireland shows another problem of sustainability definitions. The problem is that private debt can increase public debt and even threaten its sustainability. Many countries were saving their financial sector which was very expensive and this practice is increased the debt in those countries very fast. Probably the most important indicator of fiscal sustainability is interest rate on government bonds. Reason is that price of the bonds is based on different risks that are in the assets. Countries with sustainable fiscal policy are paying lower interests than countries with unsustainable. This is reason why we tried to explain variation of interest rate on 10 years government bonds by empirical models. Two models were based on fixed effects panel data estimations and one model was based on ordinary least squares model. The panel data model showed that there was and still is huge difference between Old European and New European countries. Old Europe was viewed by markets as one segment which is relatively risk free. This lead to situation, that most important factor driving interest rates in Old Europe is the risk free rate on the German bonds. On the other hand, interest rates in New European countries are influenced by many more indicators. Most important indicator in New Europe is GDP growth and sustainability of foreign exchange reserves. Based on results of the model we came to conclusion that there is high chance that markets will start to differ among Old European countries and this could lead to increase of interest rates in some Old EU members, a conclusion which is to some degree being verified by the increased spreads between German government bonds on one hand, and Italian and Spanish bonds on the other hand in the first few weeks of August 2011. Our conclusions also suggest that the position of New Europe may stand similar in current situation. If it is true policymakers may try to adapt policy of New European countries to increase its sustainability and improve the key variables. The conclusions from this work bring several policy recommendations for improving the fiscal sustainability in Europe. First and probably the most important recommendation to fiscal policy is that policymakers should not underestimate the indicators of fiscal sustainability, which was a common practice in recent history. Countries with high GDP growth were generating large deficits and debt to GDP ratio was constant. Problem is that in recession indicators that were influencing interest rate changed and fiscal policy become unsustainable in many cases. Conclusion for fiscal policy is that policymakers should run responsible fiscal policy in good times to avoid troubles in bad times. Governments should also understand full price of deficits, because increased deficits also increase interest rate that governments have to pay on existing debt.

The objective of this diploma thesis is to evaluate the economic situation in France by analysing the macroeconomic indicators between 2000 and 2010, while the main emphasis is put on the period of 2007-2010. The first chapter describes the fundamental geographic, demographic, political and economic facts about France. The main macroeconomic indicators of France during the period of the world financial and economic crisis (2007-2010) are analysed in the second chapter. The third chapter focuses on the impacts of the world financial and economic crisis on the French economy. This part deals mainly with problems concerning the public finance, the labour market and immigration.

This dissertation deals with current trends in insurance. The aim of this thesis is to find and analyse the development trends, which has affected the insurance market the most in the last years and to attempt a prognosis of the future development in insurance. The first part of the thesis is focused on the main factors, which has been caused by current Global trends. There are also detected significant changes that occurred by entering of the Czech Republic to the European Union. The last subhead informs about possible indicators which we can consider the development in the Czech insurance system on and possibly compare with development in international insurance market. The crucial part of the dissertation, concerning the trends in the insurance market, is divided into 3 parts -- Trends in life insurance, Trends in non-life insurance and Trends in services which are closely connected to the insurance market. The thesis also deals with the influence of the recent economic crisis on development trends in insurance, and there is an analysis made separately for life and non-life insurance. The last part is focused on the prognosis of the future development and so outlining of possible ways the insurance market could be wending in the future.

The main topic of this diploma thesis is a response of the American administration and its legislation to the financial crisis which took place between the years 2007 and 2009 and the resulting changes in the financial markets regulatory rules in the United States. The aim of the thesis is to analyze specific individual sections of the well-known Dodd-Frank Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and its impacts on the banking sector in the US. The first part of the thesis deals with the analysis of main causes of the so-called mortgage financial crisis of the first decade of the 21th century. Numerical evidence shows the impacts into the real economy and channels through which the crisis had spread into financial markets worldwide are also described. The following sections contain in-depth description and analysis of changes in regulatory legislation and rules governing the US banking and other financial institutions.

This thesis presents changes proposed in the European Union as a reaction to financial crisis. The aim of this thesis is to provide a summary and comment of changes both in organisation of supervision and banking regulation, especially concentrating on Basel III and taxation. The first part contains a description of the structure of supervision both in the Czech Republic and in the European Union. The description includes development in the Czech Republic in last five years. The second part contains a description of causes and development of the global financial crisis, defines systemic risk and financial stability and the ways to measure it. The third part describes new structure of supervision in the EU and impact of the change. It also includes a description of Basel III and CRD IV and its impact, discussion of options of taxation in the financial market. The end of this part is a brief summary of changes applied in the USA and its comparison to changes in the EU. The last chapter contains the CNB's position to these changes.