Foreign trade of the Czech Republic - Case study of coffee import

Bc. Tarek Rebai

Diplomová práce

Abstract:

The diploma thesis is focused on the foreign trade of the Czech Republic, namely on the import of the coffee in the years 1997 - 2017. The main aim of the thesis is to analyze the foreign trade of the Czech Republic with a focus on the import of the coffee. The thesis is divided into the theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part deals with world’s production, growing conditions, different kinds of coffee beans and fair trade. It also describes the importance of coffee for the world economy, the major exporter and importer of coffee, the determinants of coffee exports and international organizations on the world coffee market. Practical part describes econometric analysis and its methods. This is followed by the analysis of coffee consumption in the Czech Republic in time period of 1997 and 2017. In the analysis of coffee consumption there is a single econometric model, which determines which factors significantly influence value of the coffee import to the Czech Republic. Furthermore, economic, statistical and econometric verification of the model is performed.

Keywords

trade, international, commodity, market, import, export, coffe

Jazyk práce: angličtina

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 27. 3. 2019

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Vedoucí: doc. Ing. Mansoor Maitah, Ph.D. Ph.D.

Česká zemědělská univerzita v Praze

Provozně ekonomická fakulta

Magisterský studijní program / obor:
Economics and Management / European Agrarian Diplomacy