Measuring corruption in developed countries

• Thesis title in Czech: Měření korupce v rozvinutých zemích
• Thesis title in English: Measuring corruption in developed countries
• Key words: Indexy, institucionální kvalita, protiprávní jednání, měření korupce, veřejná správa, vyspělé ekonomiky
• English key words: Advanced economies, illegal behavior, indices, institutional quality, measuring corruption, public administration
• Academic year of topic announcement: 2011/2012
• Thesis type: rigorosum thesis
• Thesis language: angličtina
• Department: Institute of Economic Studies (23-IES)
• Supervisor: PhDr. Jaromír Baxa, Ph.D.
• Author: hidden - assigned by the advisor
• Date of registration: 30.08.2012
• Date of assignment: 30.08.2012
• Date and time of defence: 25.10.2012 00:00
• Venue of defence: IES
• Date of electronic submission: 09.09.2012
• Date of proceeded defence: 25.10.2012
• Opponents: prof. Ing. Karel Janda, Dr., Ph.D., M.A.

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Preliminary scope of work in English

The thesis should categorize corruption assessments and characterizes the weaknesses and limitations of particular methods. It is not clear how well corruption indices correlate for a set of developed countries since there is no clear order of countries that are considered the least corrupt. An applied hierarchical cluster analysis should give better picture of otherwise inconsistent developed countries corruption rankings and divide a set of developed countries into several homogeneous groups.