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The study analyzes the reliability of corruption risk indicators using Hungarian public procurement data, specifically … focusing on EU-funded contracts associated with a cartel case revealed by the Hungarian Competition Authority (HCA) in 2016 …. The investigation aims to determine whether corruption risk indicators for public procurement contracts related to the …
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We study the relationship between collusion and corruption in a stylized model of repeated procurement where the cost … bureaucrats, generating a trade-off. When the likelihood of corruption is high and competition is weak, collusion may be a price … worth paying to curb corruption. …
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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 …. Feasibility and usefulness of the proposed indicators are demonstrated using micro-level public procurement data from Hungary in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075333
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 …. Feasibility and usefulness of the proposed indicators are demonstrated using micro-level public procurement data from Hungary in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010209048
State capture and corruption are widespread phenomena across the globe, but their empirical study is still highly …-level contractual networks in public procurement. To this end, it first establishes a robust measure of corruption risks in public … high corruption risk organisations in the full contractual network of issuers and suppliers. These clusters and the density …
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does so in a medium income country characterized by systemic corruption risks: Hungary. It looks at how political …Private sector companies develop a diverse set of political connections in high and low corruption countries alike …. Using political connections to gain advantage when competing for government contracts is a major form of corruption from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014130543
This paper studies how information control affects incentives for collusion and optimal organizational structures in principal-supervisor-agent relationships. I consider a model in which the principal designs the supervisor's signal on the productive agent's private information and the...
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This paper studies how information control affects incentives for collusion and optimal organizational structures in principal-supervisor-agent relationships. I consider a model in which the principal designs the supervisor's signal on the productive agent's private information and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012415488
corruption risks often observed in negotiated procedures. For rule-based procedures, we show that a "third-price lottery" in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014493870
We study the relationship between collusion and corruption in a stylized model of repeated procurement where the cost … bureaucrats, generating a trade-off. When the likelihood of corruption is high and competition is weak, collusion may be a price … worth paying to curb corruption. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278155