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Corruption and Economic Growth
Klepek, Cyril ; Běláčková, Vendula (advisor) ; Chalupníček, Pavel (referee)
The paper focuses on the issue of corruption and its affect on economic growth. In examining these effects, the study directs its attention at the European Union and is divided into two parts. In the empirical section, the results of a regressive analysis confirm the initial hypothesis of the negative effect of corruption on economic performance. The study then describes the effects of corruption on economic growth using direct and transmission mechanisms. The theoretical part of this study presents information on the problems of this phenomenon in terms of its identification and measurement. The study also considers the differing situations in European Union Member States and disproves the assumption that the EU is divided into the corrupt east and non-corrupt west. In view of the confirmation of the negative effect of corruption on GDP growth, the study presents possible solutions, which in particular call for the need for an effective and enforceable legal system.
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Options of restriction corruption in public procurement
Rýparová, Marie ; Kubelková, Karina (advisor) ; Ježek, Tomáš (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the problem of corruption in public procurement in the Czech Republic. The theoretical part characterises corruption, in terms of types and measurement and shows the negative effects on employment, direct foreign investment and state economy. The aim of this thesis is to describe how public procurement works in the Czech Republic, show its weaknesses (in particular those that invite corruption) and propose possible solutions to these problems. These solutions are designed to ensure greater transparency in public procurement and also to reduce inefficient and misallocated public expenditure.
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Analysis of corruption in health
Dupalová, Veronika ; Běláčková, Vendula (advisor) ; Durdisová, Jaroslava (referee)
This BA thesis deals with influence of corruption on number of competitors in relation to detection of final price of public order in medical service. The academic part defines concept of the word "corruption", its legal framework, kinds of corruption, possibilities of corruption measurement, control system of public competition etc. The second part of the thesis is an analysis of public order efficiency with the aid of regressive model. For the intention of the BA thesis, 223 public orders executed in the Czech republic during 2006-2009 period were choosen in random way with use of variable quantities - entering price, final price, number of offerors etc. The thesis attemps to confirm presumption of relation between explicite competition ( number of submited offers) and final price. The anticipated outcome lies in the fact that the number of submitted offers fundamentally influences the final price of the public order in the Czech republic. Presumably it's the consequence of uneconomical and non-transparent legal regulation of public medical service which supports mismanagement dealing.
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Does corruption cause public finance deficit?
Turko, Dominik ; Houdek, Petr (advisor) ; Skopeček, Jan (referee)
With the use of panel data from the year 2005 to 2009 tracking the 27 EU member countries, it is tested; wheather corruption causes public finance deficits. The indicator control of corruption, which is a part of WGI (World Governance Indicators) is used as the main measure of corruption-level. This rate is annually compiled by the World Bank organization. Corruption effects deficit through lower tax revenues. Lower tax revenues are the consequence of lower rate of growth. The second main transmission channel between corruption and deficit is the higher public expenditures, which are the result of inefficiency of public investment (Kaufmann, 2010). With the help of the fixed-effects model the introductory hypothesis has been verifyed. Improvement of the measure control of corruption by one unit leads to the reduction of the public finance deficit as the share of GDP by about 4 pp. The hypothesis, that the size of government affects the deficit negatively has also been verified. The increase of the size of the government as the share of public expenditure of GDP of 1 pp causes the increase of deficit of 0,26 pp. The membership in EMU represents an encreace of deficit by 2 pp. First, the economic freedom reduces deficits of public finance, but later it has the opposite effect.
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Anticorruption mechanism design
Kobrč, Marek ; Bartoň, Petr (advisor) ; Skopeček, Jan (referee)
This paper contains a design of an anticorruption measure. Person, which first reports a corruption it has committed will be freed of all charges and could keep all the yields he has already taken possession of. Everybody who has committed the corruption would have an incentive to report it. The corrupting people must therefore take cost to prevent this option which would lower their profit and therefore the occurrence of corruption as well. The measure also increases the chance of revealing the corruption. Were some conditions met, the corruption could be prevented beforehand. The measure could be used to reveal corruption which happened before the implementation of the measure.
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The issue of corruption among the police force of the Czech Republic and its prevention
KUČERA, Tomáš
In this bachelor thesis there are pin-pointed basic characteristics of corruption, main features, types causes and risk factors, the usual forms of police corruption and currently applied prevention measures within the police force. The trend in corruption behaviour within the Czech police force in years 2003 - 2009 and the efficiency of applied prevention measures have been evaluated based on available statistic data. Included are also points related to issues of detection and investigation into this unlawful behaviour.
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The analysis of relationship between corruption level and price level of infrastructure works
Dvořák, Michal ; Pavel, Jan (advisor) ; Vítek, Leoš (referee)
The thesis analyses the influence of corruption on infrastructure works prices. For that purpose, indicators based on Comparative price level indices issued by Eurostat and Corruption Perceptions Index by Transparency International are used. The method is a cross-sectional analysis of at least 20 European countries for 2007. NERV and Czech media have used the mentioned indicators to demonstrate overpricing of road construction in the Czech Republic. These indicators will be controlled for difference in labor and capital costs across countries, which affects the indicators through different production factor consumption in engineering works and other branches of construction. Significant correlation between corruption index and indicators of engineering works prices was found both in the unadjusted and adjusted form.
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Anti-corruption policy in Slovakia
Ambrózyová, Miroslava ; Vymětal, Petr (advisor) ; Smetanková, Daša (referee)
The aim of this paper is to describe the fight against corruption in Slovakia in the country context and international context and to answer following questions: " What is the current state of anti-corruption policy in Slovakia and what is its history since 1998?" and " What is the evaluation of the anti-corruption policy in Slovakia given by the international subjects and to what an extent has this evaluation determined the development of anti-corruption policy? The paper contents theory about corruption, its different kinds, reasons and consequences, the outlook about the current legislative frame and significant laws, the governmental anti-corruption programs and perception of the corruption by the public and GRECO and OECD.
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Compliance in real business
Kalová, Kristýna ; Pelák, Jiří (advisor)
My bachelor work deals implementation of Compliance in real business companies. In this work is explained the idea of Compliance, corporate social responsibility, environmental policy and term of Stakeholders. On the frequent examples are shown methods of enterprise corruption.
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The Economic Policy of Angola during the Civil War
Osičková, Martina ; Pavlík, Petr (advisor) ; Šaroch, Stanislav (referee)
The following Bachelor's thesis deals with the analysis of the politics of Angola in the period of the civil war and after its end. The thesis unravels issues related to the outbreak of internal conflicts both theoretically and through the case study of Angola. Furthermore it deals with economic policy during the war and describes the political developement since achievement of independence until the end of the war and various political orientations which were present in the country. In detail the thesis focuses on the policy of oil industry. It tackles a question of its impact on economy of the country and dependency of Angola's economy on this industry. Moreover the thesis explains the situation in agriculture and Angola's agricultural policy. An important chapter is that which refers to corruption in Angola. The corruption is expressed by figures and illustrated with an example of a particular corruption affair. The last chapter mentions some basic economic data which illustrate the development of Angola since the beginning of the civil war until present.
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