Zadluženost veřejného sektoru v postkomunistických zemích EU

This thesis deals with the issue of fiscal imbalance in 8 selected postcommunist countries within the European Union (the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia). These countries together with Cyprus and Malta represented the largest expansion of the European Union in 2004. In the empirical analysis the determinants affecting the size of the public debt in these countries for the period 1995-2012 are examined. The thesis also deals with the causality between the public debt and economic activity in these countries in order to determine whether the public debt leads to a decline in GDP or not. Within the sub-analysis, the attention is paid to the development of the indebtedness of these countries in order to assess its sustainability