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D'Andrea, Angelo - 2019

In this paper I run a regression discontinuity design analysis to document the causal effect of mayor's wage on procurement outcomes in a large data base of public procurement contracts in Italy. To identify the wage effect, I use peculiarities of the Italian legislation where mayor's...

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Anatomy of Public Procurement

Jääskeläinen, Jan - 2019

We provide novel stylized facts about competition, bidding, entry and bidders across a wide spectrum of public procurement auctions using comprehensive and rich Finnish data. Competition for publicly procured contracts is relatively low with a median bidder count of two (three conditional on...

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E-procurement System Adoption in Local Governments : the Role of Procurement Complexity and Organizational Structure

Chen, Yifan; Bretschneider, Stuart; Stritch, Justin; … - 2022

The article examines how local governments’ procurement complexity and structure interact to influence e-procurement adoption. Drawing on the survey data of over 400 cities, we find that a centralized structure enhances the likelihood that local governments adopt an e-procurement system to...

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Implementation of Sustainable Public Procurement in Local Governments : A Measurement Approach

Hsueh, Lily; Bretschneider, Stuart; Stritch, Justin; … - 2022

Purpose - Assessing and measuring the extent of organization-level policy implementation has received little scholarly attention, especially in the areas of local governments' procurement and environmental protection. To rectify the paucity of research in this area, this paper adopts...

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The one and only : single-bidding in public procurement

Titl, Vitezslav - 2025

Approximately 42% of European public procurement contracts are awarded to a sole bidder. As this market represents about one-seventh of GDP in developed countries, any inefficiency is a first-order concern. This paper examines a Czech reform that prohibited awarding such single-bid contracts....

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Anatomy of grand corruption : a composite corruption risk index based on objective data

Fazekas, Mihály; Tóth, István János; King, Lawrence - 2014

Although both the academic and policy communities have attached great importance to measuring corruption, most of the … indicator of grand corruption based on a wide range of elementary indicators. These indicators are derived from a rich … qualitative evidence on public procurement corruption and a statistical analysis of a public procurement data in Hungary. The …

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Corruption manual for beginners : "corruption techniques" in public procurement with examples from Hungary

Fazekas, Mihály; Tóth, István János; King, Lawrence - 2013

This paper develops 30 novel quantitative indicators of grand corruption that operationalize 20 distinct techniques of … corruption in the context of public procurement. Each indicator rests on a thorough qualitative understanding of rent extraction … composite indicator of high-level corruption, the high degree of detail also reveals that many regulatory interventions have …

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Infrastructure provision and Africa's trade and development prospects : potential role and relevance of The WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA)

Niggli, Nicholas C.; Osei-Lah, Kodjo - 2014 - Manuscript date: 30 October, 2014

Two issues stand out in this conversation. The first concerns the unfinished business of the global fight against the scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for economic performance - affordable and efficient public...

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When can lotteries improve public procurement processes?

Estache, Antonio; Foucart, Renaud; Serebrisky, Tomás - 2022

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

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How to Reduce Corruption in Public Procurement : The Fundamentals

Olaya Garcia, Dr. Juanita; Wiehen, Michael - 2009

opportunities for corruption than public sector procurement. Damage from corruption is estimated at normally between 10% and 25 …. Transparency of the processes is limited, and manipulation is hard to detect. Few people becoming aware of corruption complain … Curbing Corruption in Public Procurement published by Transparency International in 2006 and its purpose is to provide an …

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