Reálná konvergence ekonomik a její narušení hospodářskou krizí

This bachelor thesis focuses on the impact of the economic crisis on the development of the real convergence of the Czech economy in comparison with the EU and ASEAN economies. Two real convergence concepts - beta and sigma - were used for the analysis and they were analyzed separately on six models both pre-crisis and post-crisis: all EU countries (EU-28), EU countries without Ireland and Luxembourg (EU-26), original EU Member States (EU-13) and Visegrad Group (V4), EU-13 and the Czech Republic, ASEAN and finally ASEAN states with selected EU members (EU-11). Results in the pre-crisis period proved beta-convergence in all models except the model of EU-13 and the Czech Republic; in the post-crisis period, beta-convergence was proved only in the ASEAN model and in ASEAN countries with the EU-11 countries. The concept of sigma convergence was proved only in the EU-26 countries in the pre-crisis period, all other results were unclear.