June 4, 2014
Brown Bag presentation given at the World Bank, Washington D.C., 4th of June 2014
ABSTRACT
As part of CRCB’s one-week visit to the World Bank (Operations Risk, Public Sector Governance and Integrity, and Controllers), Mihály Fazekas and István János Tóth gave a brown-bag lunch presentation. It introduced the CRCB approach to measuring corruption and collusion risks in public procurement worldwide. After demonstrating the feasibility and validity of read more
The report empirically analyses information disclosure practices on 368 municipalities’ webpages in 2013 from the viewpoint of transparency, accountability, and informing citizens. The analysis is based on the laws regulating information disclosure in Hungary. The report measures the degree to which municipalities’ webpages abide by the prescriptions of these laws. The empirical results show that it is the lack of transparency and neglecting legal prescriptions which characterises urban settlements; read more
June 20, 2014
Presentation given at the Oxford Centre for the Study of Corruption and Transparency, University of Oxford, Kellogg College, 20th of June 2014.
ABSTRACT
Existing measures of corruption often suffer from bias and are too broad to guide policy or test theories. This paper proposes three new indirect indicators of high-level corruption in public procurement, using contract and organisation-level administrative data.
The first is a composite score expressing the probability of corruption read more
The transparency of government funding of the media is an essential element of the freedom of expression. However, this transparency is weak in the Hungarian media. The Hungarian media relies heavily on government advertisement spending. The public advertising orders can determine the fate of a media company. This dependency can threaten the freedom of the press since the government has the means to influence media content. This report has been prepared to describe the role of state purchases in read more
April 3, 2014
Presentation at the Midwest Political Science Association 72nd Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 3 April 2014.
State capture and corruption are widespread phenomena in transition economies such as Hungary. This paper has a two-fold goal: first, to demonstrate how a novel analytical framework for gauging state capture works using the example of Hungary during 2009-2012; second, to systematically analyse how captor group organisation influences the read more
March 29, 2014
Some information published in the Public Procurement Bulletin (e.g., call for bids, tender results) is inaccurate. In cases when the Public Procurement Board (PPB) is informed about the error, for example, by the issuer, a correction notice is published subsequently (e.g., rectification or modification) (regulations related to this are NFM 14/2010 [October 29th], and in NFM 92/2011 [December 30th]). Nevertheless, in some cases, the original, incorrect announcement is read more
Although the Hungarian Public Procurement Authority has made all the information publicly available online for the public procurement tenders between 1998 and 2004, the data format is inappropriate for statistical analysis. The information is stored in basic HTML files which does not provide any interface for sorting and searching among the data. In this technical paper we describe our data extraction process which we used to turn the HTML based information into database format by extracting read more
March 20, 2014
Presentation at the Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, 20. March 2014.
The presentation: (PDF)
Suggested citation:
Fazekas, M., & Tóth, I. J. (2014, March 20). Anatomy of Grand Corruption: A Composite Corruption Risk Index Based on Objective Data [Presentation]. Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, read more
The Hungarian Public Procurement Authority does not have such a database on Hungarian public procurements, that contains the documentation of each public procurement tender in a uniform structure: namely the call for tenders, the contract award notices, the contract fulfilment, and contract amendment notices or corrigenda.
The goal of CRBC is to solve this deficiency: we would like to build a uniformly structured database based on the publicly available documents of the Authority that is suitable read more
This short paper describes some basic characteristics of the Hungarian legislation in 1998-2012 through publicly accessible online administrative data. Our focus is to compare the 2010-2012 period to former years. We assume that these characteristics – the number of days elapsed between submitting a bill and the publication of the final law; the type of the person/organisation who submitted the bill; number of modifications that become necessary a short time after the publication of the law – can read more