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Preventing Corruption, Supplier Collusion and the Corrosion of Civic Trust : A Procompetitive Program to Improve the Effectiveness and Legitimacy of Public Procurement

Anderson, Robert D. - 2020

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Combatting Corruption and Collusion in UK Public Procurement : Proposals for Post-Brexit Reform

Jones, Alison - 2021

from distortion by corruption and/or supplier collusion. This paper concludes that additional measures are required to … protect the integrity of procurement processes in England and Wales through improving the distinct public procurement, anti‐corruption …

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Leniency Inflation, Cartel Damages and Criminalization

Marvão, Catarina M. P.; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - 2021

We revisit the pros and cons of cartel criminalization with focus on its possible introduction in the EU. We document a recent phenomenon that we name EU ``leniency inflation", whereby leniency has been increasingly awarded to many, and sometimes all members of a cartel. We argue that, coupled...

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The Use of Leniency in EU Cartel Enforcement : An Assessment after Twenty Years

Wils, Wouter P. J. - 2018

Since 1996, the European Commission has been operating a leniency programme, under which companies cooperating with its cartel investigations can obtain immunity from fines or a reduction of fines. Leniency plays a prominent role in EU cartel enforcement today. This paper assesses the positive...

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An Economic Analysis of Debarment

Auriol, Emmanuelle - 2015

With a view to reducing the consequences of corruption in public procurement, many governments have introduced … debarment of suppliers found guilty of corruption and some other forms of crime. This paper explores the market effects of … with low competition it may deter corruption as long as firms value public procurement contracts in the future and there is …

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Data-Driven and Digital Procurement Governance : Revisiting Two Well-Known Elephant Tales

Sanchez-Graells, Albert - 2019

This paper takes the dearth of quality procurement data as an empirical point of departure to assess emerging regulatory trends in data-driven and digital public procurement governance and, in particular, the European Commission's ambition for the single digital procurement market. It resorts to...

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Competition and Procurement Regulation : A Goal, a Principle, a Requirement, or All of the Above?

Sanchez-Graells, Albert - 2022

In this contribution, I reflect on the role of competition in public procurement regulation and, more specifically, on whether competition should be treated as a regulatory goal, as a general principle of public procurement law, as a specific (implicit or explicit) requirement in discrete legal...

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Impact of Public Procurement Aggregation on Competition : Risks, Rationale and Justification for the Rules in Directive 2014/24

Sanchez-Graells, Albert; Herrera Anchustegui, Ignacio - 2014

This paper assesses the risks, rationale and justification for the rules on centralisation and aggregation of public procurement in Directive 2014/24. The paper explores the justifications advanced for the aggregation of purchasing and the countervailing risks it generates. In both cases, it...

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Competition and the Public Buyer Towards a More Competition-Oriented Procurement : The Principle of Competition Embedded in EC Public Procurement Directives

Sanchez-Graells, Albert - 2011

The development of a more competition-oriented public procurement system is possible, on the basis of the principle of competition that is embedded in the EC public procurement Directives. This paper explores the existence of the principle of competition, roughly delimits its scope, and broadly...

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Collusion and Competition from a State and Market Perspective

Sanchez-Graells, Albert - 2013

This paper indentifies the two-dimensional relationship that procurement and competition keep. From a ‘market’ perspective, public procurement needs to take place in an environment free from collusion between tenderers, or bid rigging. Public buyers only can achieve value for money if...

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