Dataset of EU funds received by Hungary. Dataset disclosure in a format suitable for statistical analysis

June 12, 2021

CRCB is committed to foster transparency and access to public information.

The importance and benefits of governmental transparency, open government, and digital governance have been widely discussed. The disclosure of public data is an important goal supported by international organizations, governmental partnerships, and global civil society organizations (Open Government Partnership, European Commission, The World Bank, and OECD).

Based on the expectations of OECD digital openness and read more

Tesztelés, politikai korrupció és Covid-19 halálozás

Publications, Research Notes, Short PapersCovid-19, EU, mortality rate, OECD, political corruption

2021. június 8.

Tóth I. J. 2021. Tesztelés, politikai korrupció és Covid-19 halálozás. [Testing, political corruption and Covid-19 mortality. ] CRCB Research Notes: 2021:2, Budapest: CRCB. https://bit.ly/3cqeHsn

Abstract

The paper deals with the impact of political (grand) corruption and government measures against the pandemic on the Covid-19 mortality rate using data of EU27 and OECD countries. The share of the positive tests within all tests is considered an indicator of government measures’ impact. We use the data of the World Bank and Our World in Data. The political corruption is measured by the 2019 data of the WEF read more

Data Concealment and Mortality in Covid-19 Pandemic. An Illustrative Figure and a Hypothesis

Publications, Research Notes, Short PapersCovid-19, quality of government

April 29, 2021

Public information provision by the government is essential to create trust in the government and government decisions, especially in the Covid-19 pandemic, when citizens’ compliance to the government measures is essential to curb the epidemy. On the other hand, the public information provided by the government supports that the government decisions on pandemic based on experts’ opinion, well-founded evidence, and analysis.

Therefore, it is worth analyzing how governments’ read more

Adatok, járvány, intézményi minőség

Presentations, Publicationscorruption, data publication quality, quality of government

April 8, 2021

Adatok, járvány, intézményi minőség [Data, COVID-19 Pandemic, Institutional Quality]

Presentation in Hungarian in the Budapest Science Meetup (pdf)

Factors Affecting the Corruption Risk and Intensity of Competition in Public Procurement at the Level of Local Government

Publications, Working Paperscorruption risk, Hungary, intensity of competition, local government, public procurement

December 21, 2020
Tóth, I. J. and Hajdu, M. 2020. Factors Affecting the Corruption Risk and Intensity of Competition in Public Procurement at the Level of Local Government. Working Paper Series: CRCB-WP/2020:1. Budapest: CRCB.

This paper investigates the level of corruption risk and intensity of competition of public tenders at the municipal level in Hungary. It analyses the relationship of these factors with the level of human capital, economic development, and settlement size. The paper’s novelty is the sub-national level, and that the research is based on microdata (contract level data), whereas the read more

Magyarország a NER útján

Databasescorruption risk, EU, Hungary

2021. március 6.

Adatok (zip)

Stata do file (zip) read more

The Strabag in the Hungarian Public Procurement market

Publications, Research NotesAustria, corruption risk, public procurement

January 15, 2012

The Role of Strabag in the Hungarian Public Procurement from January 2005 to April 2020

A Brief Analysis and Statistics (xlsx)

A figure based on Tender Electronic Daily (TED) data on Strabag’s activity on European public procurement market from 2006 to read more

Útépítés Magyarországon – 2020

Presentations

2020. december 15.

A Strabag építette 2020-ban az M76-os út Balatonszentgyörgy – Sármellék közötti szakaszát, belerétve az M76 és 71-es út kereszteződését.

Térképen itt látható a helyszín: https://www.google.com/maps/@46.6774003,17.2166509,12z

Az M76 építése során Balatonszentgyörgynél felépített felüljáró és az M76-71-es csomópont között mintegy 4-5 méterre emelték meg az út szintjét a korábbi 76-os út szintjéhez képest kb. 2-2,5 kilométeren keresztül. A töltést teljes egészében kőzuzalékból emelték a read more

New Trends in Corruption Risks and Intensity of Competition in the Hungarian Public Procurement

Publications, Research Notes, Short Paperscorr, corruption risk, cronyism, Hungary, intensity of competition, public procurement

May 26, 2020
New Trends in Corruption Risk and Intensity of Competition in the Hungarian Public Procurement from January 2005 to April 2020. Flash Report 2020:1. Budapest: CRCB
This report examines Hungarian public procurement data in the period between 2005 and 2020. Data from 248,404 contracts were used for the analysis, which focuses on information about corruption risk, the intensity of competition and political favouritism.

The results show that in the first four months of 2020, corruption risk in Hungarian read more