Are EU Funds a Corruption Risk? The Impact of EU Funds on Grand Corruption in...
There is an intensifying public debate about EU Structural and Cohesion Fund’s impact on government quality in recipient countries. We test the hypothesis that EU Funds increase high-level corruption...
View ArticleThe Political Economy of Grand Corruption in Public Procurement in the...
Bidding companies linked to political officeholders are more likely to win in procurement tenders overall in Hungary. The share of companies that are openly connected politically winning public...
View ArticleCorruption manual for beginners –“Corruption techniques” in public...
GTI-WP/2013:01 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...
View ArticleAnatomy of grand corruption: A composite corruption risk index based on...
GTI-WP/2013:02 Although both the academic and policy communities have attached great importance to measuring corruption, most of the currently available measures are biased and too broad to test theory...
View ArticleAre EU funds a corruption risk? – The impact of EU funds on grand corruption...
GTI-WP/2013:03 The paper explores the impact of EU funds on institutionalised grand corruption in public procurement between 2009-2012 in three countries: Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia. We...
View ArticleFrom corruption to state capture: A new analytical framework with empirical...
GTI-WP/2014:01 State capture and corruption are widespread phenomena across the globe, but their empirical study is still highly challenging. This paper develops a new conceptual and analytical...
View ArticleToolkit for detecting collusive bidding in public procurement – With examples...
GTI-WP/2014:02 Based on a synthesis of literature to-date, this paper provides a flexible indicator set deployable as a toolkit across many countries for detecting collusive bidding in public...
View ArticleCorruption in EU Funds? Europe-wide evidence on the corruption effect of EU...
GTI-WP/2015:01 It is theoretically ambiguous and empirically contested whether EU Funds contribute to lower corruption and better governance or the opposite. Many recipient countries benefit to a...
View ArticleUncovering High-Level Corruption: Cross-National Corruption Proxies Using...
GTI-WP/2015:02 Measuring high-level corruption and government favouritism has been the object of extensive scholarly and policy interest with relatively little progress in the last decade. In order to...
View ArticleHow to Construct a Public Procurement Database from Administrative Records? –...
GTI-R/2015:02 This report aims to provide a comprehensive outline of the potential challenges of building a database from publicly available public procurement records and the possible solutions to the...
View ArticleMeasuring high-level corruption and Mafia infiltration in public procurement
Presentation of Mihály Fazekas at the Italian Anticorruption Agency (ANAC) on the measurement of corruption and organised crime infiltration in public procurement across Europe as well as in Italy,...
View ArticleGTI awarded a new major research project by the British Academy
Government Transparency Institute proudly announces that the British Academy and the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) decided to support our joint research project with the...
View ArticleData Publication: Czech, Hungarian and Slovakian national public procurement...
The database contains not only the most important information about individual public procurement tenders in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia but also the Corruption Risk Index and its...
View ArticleData Publication: TED public procurement contract database
The database contains information about public procurement tenders published in the EU’s Tender Electronic Daily (TED). Database building and calculations were accomplished within the DIGIWHIST project...
View ArticleFrom Corruption to State Capture. A New Analytical Framework with Empirical...
State capture and corruption are widespread phenomena across the globe, but their empirical study still lacks sufficient analytical tools. This paper develops a new conceptual and analytical framework...
View ArticleUniversalistic rules-particularistic implementation: The EU’s single market...
GTI-R/2016:01 Open and fair access to government contracts has been a long-standing principle in many international trade agreements including the one on the EU’s single public procurement market which...
View ArticleBreaking the cycle? How (not) to use political finance regulations to counter...
Fazekas, M and Cingolani, L (2016). Breaking the cycle? How (not) to use political finance regulations to counter public procurement corruption. GTI-WP/2016:01, Budapest: Government Transparency...
View ArticleCorrupt Contracting: Partisan Favouritism in Public Procurement
David-Barrett, L and Fazekas, M (2016). Corrupt Contracting: Partisan Favouritism in Public Procurement. GTI-WP/2016:02, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. For politicians seeking to use a...
View ArticleA comprehensive review of objective corruption proxies in public procurement:...
Fazekas, M., Cingolani, L. and Tóth, B. (2016). A comprehensive review of objective corruption proxies in public procurement: risky actors, transactions, and vehicles of rent extraction....
View ArticleMeasuring Corrupt Rent Extraction by Tracking the Misuse of Corporate Vehicles
Fazekas, M. and Tóth, B. (2016). Measuring Corrupt Rent Extraction by Tracking the Misuse of Corporate Vehicles. Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. This proposal was prepared for the U4...
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