This thesis aimed to examine methods used to evaluate multinational and diversified firms and then use these methods to study the Philips Group and its decision to spin-off of the Philips Lighting sector. Although numerous methods and parameters used to analyze firms already exist, they remain very limited for multinational and diversified firms such as Philips Group or General Electric. In this thesis, hypotheses were based on the theory of the firm and tested using analysis of leverage, profitability and efficiency ratios. This study shows the difficulty of analysing multinational diversified firms caused by a very limited availability of data set. Thus, despite of a great number of ratios described in the literature, only a small portion can be in fact computed using publicly available data. Hypotheses were based on the the paper developed by Chen and Guo (2005). First hypothesis, based on the analysis of capital constraint was attempted, secondly the pace and directions of individual sectors were analysed using profitability and efficiency ratios and thirdly the stock performance was observed. All of this in order to examine whether the motive of the split was to increase the stock prices. It was found that Philips Group nor its Lighting sector did not experience capital constraints, nevertheless an important degree of underperformance amidst analysed figures was found, which suggested that Philips Lighting division was not as good in creating value for shareholders as the HealthTech division was. Moreover, the decision of Philips Group to concentrate on its HealthTech business was positively accepted on stock markets confirming the third hypothesis.

There has been an endless discussion on the efficient-market hypothesis between different academic schools. Many recent studies have opened up towards the paradigm shift in rational thinking problem. This thesis deals with the issue of asymmetric information interpretation during altered mental states. The purpose of this study is to discover the effect on agent's behaviour using a practical tool such as a daily trade plan. If traders succumb to irrationality, they probably make poor choices below their potential levels. Therefore the experiment was conducted with students of FM VŠE. The variables were measured before and after the intervention which was applying the trade plan. The additional data collection mapped the personal context of self-reflection and management of well-being. The results indicate the advantage of using the daily trade plan for manipulating the factors that can negatively influence the quality of decision-making.

The main aim of the thesis is to describe the decision-making mechanism of companies regarding the capital structure over the business life cycle. The study analyses the use of main capital structure theories in practice. Moreover it links the financial theory with the concept of business life cycle. Secondly, the thesis includes detailed comparative analysis of various sources of business financing and their costs, quantification of the costs of capital and analysis of any calculation inaccuracy of this parameter in practice. Finally, the thesis defines the fundamental decision-making formulas about the capital structure in individual phases of life cycle while using the relevant data. The thesis is, on the grounds of research, focused on the trade-off theory and relating calculation of optimal capital structure.

Ambition of the thesis is to identify and evaluate tools that companies use to build and strengthen its employer brand in the external labour market, and internally among its employees and apply the theory of building employer brand on concrete company. The theoretical part of the thesis focuses defining brand as such, its theory and components moving through corporate brand to definition and concept of employer brand and its elements and ways of building an employer brand. The methodology of work consists of analysis of dedicated literature and papers on the topic and publicly available information about chosen company. In practical part, the thesis analyses concrete company and its employer brand using external and internal questionnaire research.

This thesis is concerned with problematics of multi-criteria decision making, especially method DEMATEL, its modifications and combinations with another methods. There is description of particular steps of this methods and selected theory from various areas, which is used in these methods. In every chapter we can find theoretical explanation of these methods, description of their steps and afterwards these theoretical findings are applied on numerical example. Firstly, the crucial method is introduced. Then this thesis is concerned with its adjustments based, on different approaches, which are often used not only in decision making. In the end, all these findings are aggregated and new method is founded.

Diplomová práce se zabývá sociální a ekonomickou analýzou rozvoje okresu České Budějovice, kdy hlavní pozornost směřuji na okrajovou část tohoto okresu ? na Novohradsko. Po úvodní kapitole věnované teoretickým východiskům práce, následují již zcela praktické části práce. V nich se postupně věnuji základní charakteristice oblasti, obyvatelstvu, místní ekonomice, infrastruktuře a cestovnímu ruchu, který považuji za rozhodující faktor rozvoje tohoto území. Na základě zjištěných poznatků je v poslední části vypracována SWOT analýza, která shrnuje silné a slabé stránky a poukazuje na možné příležitosti a hrozby v dalším rozvoji území.

Tématem diplomové práce je zhodnocení vývoje reálné a nominální konvergence ČR k EU a zkoumání připravenosti České republiky na přijetí eura. Práce se zabývá teoretickými koncepty konvergence, jako je zákon jedné ceny, teorie parity kupní síly či Balassa - Samuelsonův model. Shrnuje, která kritéria se k hodnocení procesu konvergence používají, a blíže analyzuje, jak Česká republika plní maastrichtská konvergenční kritéria. V závěru práce jsou shrnuty aktuální problémy hospodářské politiky ČR, které jsou překážkou přijetí společné měny eura. Práce se mimo jiné zabývá otázkou, v jakém časovém horizontu je možné přijetí eura očekávat.

Signaling games are part of games with imperfect information. The games with imperfect information mean that the player doesn't know all moves of players, which played before him. The signaling game as such are interesting because some players have more information than the others. The better informed group of players can indicate to uninformed players what they know and wait how the opponents react. Generally the move which uninformed party takes influence all players. In my papers I want to describe main rules for signaling games, show possible ways how to solve this kinds of problems and use this new knowledge in aplication on problem which can be usable in practices.

Práce se zaměřuje především na daňovou problematiku a nový ?fenomén? v této oblasti ? rovnou daň. V úvodních dvou kapitolách jsou zhodnoceny myšlenkové proudy týkající se daňové teorie a teorie daňové efektivnosti. V další kapitole je pak analyzována současná česká daňová soustava, a to jak z hlediska přímých a nepřímých daní, tak z hlediska sociálního pojištění. Zároveň je zde provedena mezinárodní komparace. Ve čtvrté kapitole jsou zhodnoceny a analyzovány dopady zavedení rovné daně v současných členských zemích EU (tj. v postkomunistických zemích střední a východní Evropy). Jsou zde především posuzovány vlivy rovné daně na příjmy veřejných rozpočtů, dále pak na investiční a pracovní aktivitu a je zde také provedena komparace temp hospodářského růstu v zemích s rovnou daní a bez ní. V poslední kapitole je pak naznačen možný dopad rovné daně v podmínkách české ekonomiky, a to opět především z hlediska efektů na příjmy veřejných rozpočtů.

A random walk is a mathematical formalization of a trajectory that consists of taking succesive random steps. The results od random walk analysis have been applied to computer science, economics, biology tec. This thesis is concentrated on connection between random walk and games theory especially with thinglering simulation. The application part of this thesis is focused on game strategies, that determine the amount of bet in next game.