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Public Procurement and its Impact on Financial Indicators of Companies in the Construction Sector in Slovakia

Špinerová, Zuzana - In: Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2014 (2014) 3, pp. 61-76

The aim of this article is to examine whether there exists a relation between the participation in execution of public contracts and fi nancial indicators of companies. The issue is analysed using data on companies involved in the construction sector of the Slovak Republic. Hypotheses that the...

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What If? A Look at Integrity Pacts

Abramo, Claudio Weber - EconWPA - 2003

of corruption in public procurement. The examination draws from a decision model for participants developed elsewhere, in … premises behind the IP idea, it is argued that they stem from a perspective on cor-ruption rooted on morality rather than on …

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Prevention and detection in bribery-affected public procurement

Abramo, Claudio Weber - EconWPA - 2003

the overall efficiency of the system, including but beyond control of corruption. …

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Incentives For Repeated Contracts In Public Sector: Empirical Study Of Gasoline Procurement In Russia

Yakovlev, Andrei; Vyglovsky, Oleg; Demidova, Olga; … - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2015

This paper analyzes the phenomenon of repeated procurements made by public sector customers from the same supplier. The previous surveys of “relational contracts” gave different explanations for the possible implications of such repeated procurements, but those surveys dealt mostly with...

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Reflection of the Election Cycle in Public Procurement in Prague

Drzková, Petra - In: Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2013 (2013) 4, pp. 49-68

The aim of this paper is to reveal whether there is a relation between public procurement and the election cycle in Prague. The examined data cover the period from 2005 to 2011. Two hypotheses have been set in order to discover whether there is such a relation. The first one postulates that...

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Bearer Shares in Paper Form and Public Procurement

Chvalkovská, Jana; Janský, Petr; Skuhrovec, Jiří - In: Politická ekonomie 2012 (2012) 3, pp. 349-361

authority. This could be an indirect indicator of conflict of interests or corruption. The article concludes with policy …

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Auctions vs. Negotiations: The Case of Favoritism

Gretschko, Vitali; Wambach, Achim - CESifo - 2012

We compare two commonly used mechanisms in procurement: auctions and negotiations. The execution of the procurement mechanism is delegated to an agent of the buyer. The agent has private information about the buyer’s preferences and may collude with one of the sellers. We provide a precise...

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Corruption in delegated public procurement auctions

Dastidar, Krishnendu Ghosh; Mukherjee, Diganta - In: European Journal of Political Economy 35 (2014) C, pp. 122-127

In this paper we theoretically analyse effects of corruption in public procurements within a scoring-auction framework … politician selects the scoring rule. The paper shows that such corruption always leads to lower quality and lower price. Given a … level of corruption, a higher bargaining power of the politician in extracting bribes does not affect the quality but leads …

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The Role of Information Transparency in Public Procurement: the Example of Russian Regions

Balsevich, A.; Pivovarova, S.; Podkolzina, E. - In: Journal of the New Economic Association 15 (2012) 3, pp. 82-112

the outcomes of procurement procedures - competition, corruption, and control. Using the open information we evaluate … level of corruption in the region and increases the utilization of control mechanisms. We also show that the more …

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Public Procurement and Corruption in Africa: A Literature Review

Appolloni, Andrea - In: Rivista di Politica Economica (2013) 2, pp. 191-214

Corruption is the major scourge of governments in Africa.This paper answers three questions: what types of corruption … are found more often within public procurement in Africa? What are the major determinants of corruption in public … procurement and what are the major challenges for the fight against corruption in public procurement in Africa? This paper …

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