corruption risks often observed in negotiated procedures. For rule-based procedures, we show that a "third-price lottery" in …

We study the effects of corruption on equilibrium competition and social welfare in a first-price public procurement … government, who may request a bribe from the winning firm afterward. We first show that, in the absence of corruption, the … bureaucrat will invite more than socially optimal number of firms into the auction. Secondly, the effects of corruption on …

The paper analyses the impact of incompetence and corruption in procurement auctions. The government plans to build a … to measurement errors: the measured quality may not be the same as the actual quality. There is also corruption in the … quality. We show that both incompetence and corruption result in reducing actual quality produced and the expected welfare. We …

This paper analyses the impact of favouritism and corruption in procurement auctions in an emerging economy. There are … a good that meets a certain quality standard failing which its payment would be withheld. There is corruption in the …

After the 2014 uprising against widespread corruption under former Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych, a group of … U.S. Strategy on Countering Corruption. Resilient in the chaos of war, ProZorro offers many lessons. It offers technical … corruption after its 2014 revolution, ProZorro has persisted as a highly successful tool against corruption, as a means of …

Traditionally, procurement reform and anti-corruption initiatives have followed separate tracks, although they share a …. At the same time, the U.N. Convention Against Corruption, a sweeping commitment to fight corruption internationally, has …, by containing corruption, the U.N. Convention could make it possible to loosen at least some of the cautious constraints …

for private gain. We study the relationship between discretion and corruption in Italian government procurement auctions …, using a confidential database of firms and procurement officials investigated for corruption by Italian enforcement …, discretionary procedure auctions are associated with corruption only when conducted with fewer than the formally required number of …