D73 - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; CorruptionNávrat zpět

Foreign direct investment opens new work opportunities, positively influences workforce productivity, introduces the latest findings and technological know-how and positively influences the balance of payments. The aim of the paper is to identify, based on the available literature, the possible factors influencing the inflow of foreign direct investment into the country and, using statistical methods, to identify specific factors influencing the inflow of foreign direct investment into the Czech Republic during the period from 1998 to 2015. Using the multiple regression model, Science and research expenditures, GDP, corporate tax income and the Corruption Perceptions Index have emerged as significant factors. While spending on science and research or the GDP seem to have a positive effect on FDI, corporate tax and Corruption Perceptions Index appear to be negative in the results in the Czech Republic and the analyzed period.

The article deals with corruption and its possible impact on the economic performance of sub-national units. This topic has been missing regional dimension until now. In spite of the fact that many exact procedures which try to quantify the corruption rate in a country already exist, they all focus without exception on corruption rate at the level of countries. The newly proposed Regional index of corruption for quantification regional corruption rate will be introduced. It will be possible to mutually compare the individual regions from final values, to specify more or less affected regions, eventually to quantify deviations of individual regions from surface rate of corruption by using mathematical and statistic methods. Using the calculations of the corruption rate there was analyzed the possible impact of corruption on economic performance of NUTS II regions of the Czech Republic.

Fighting corruption is very challenging and difficult. Due to the fact that bribery and other forms of corruption are illegal practices in most countries, the actors of corruption are trying to hide their behavior and revelation of corruption is almost impossible. The most discussed is corruption in the public sector, because the consequences of such abuse of public power hit the broad mass of taxpayers and the state in general. For this reason efforts to reduce corruption are focused mainly on public administration. For reducing the interaction between officials and the public could be use e-government methods as a possible way to reduce corruption. The literature focused on e-government methods in relation to corruption suggests that electronic service delivery can reduce corruption by minimizing the interactions with officials, accelerating decisions and reducing human errors. This paper is focused on the potential role of e-government in reducing the level of corruption in the country. Specifically, this paper examines the impact of the use of e-government methods on the level of corruption in 117 countries all over the world.