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
February 14, 2014
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 read more
February 4, 2014
The Corruption Research Center Budapest team wins the U4 Proxy Challenge competition for measuring corruption.
On the 4th of February 2014, the CRCB team, István János Tóth and Mihály Fazekas, participated in the Proxy Challenge workshop in Bergen (Norway) organised by the U4-Anti-Corruption Resource Centre. In a competition with four other finalist teams, CRCB has won this global competition for proposing novel corruption measures, including innovative indicators of institutionalised grand corruption in public read more
December 13, 2013
Presentation at the Hungarian Society of Economics 7th Annual Conference, Budapest, Hungary, 20. December 2013.
The Presentation: (PDF)
Suggested citation:
Fazekas, M., Tóth, I. J., & King, L. P. (2013, December 20). Anatomy of grand corruption: A composite corruption risk index based on objective data [Presentation at the Hungarian Society of Economics 7th Annual Conference, read more
Data publication for Hungarian citizens – II. Basic data on Hungarian public procurement spending in 2009-2012 using the MaKAB database, January 23 2014 [in Hungarian: Adatközlés a magyar állampolgárok számára – II. A magyar közbeszerzések alapadatai 2009-2012 a MaKAB alapján, 2014 január 23.].
“…ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” [J. F. Kennedy]
Database for download, 24/01/2014 update (files are compressed with rar compression): por, sav, dta, csv, xlsx
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December 11, 2013
Presentation at the Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis, University of Manchester, Manchester, 11 December 2013.
The presentation: (PDF)
Suggested citation:
Fazekas, M., & Tóth, I. J. (2013). In Respectable Society: On How Networks and Institutionalised Grand Corruption Interact in Hungary [Presentation]. The Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis, University of Manchester, Manchester, read more
Fazekas, M. – King, L. P. – Tóth, I. J.: Hidden Depths. The Case of Hungary. In: Alina Mungiu-Pippidi (ed.): Controlling Corruption in Europe. The Anticorruption Report Vol. 1., Barbara Budrich Publishers. Opladen – Berlin – Toronto. 2013. pp. 74-85.
This report investigates corruption risk of EU funds spending in Hungary within the framework of the Public Procurement Law. Its finding is that in spite of what is a tight regulatory framework EU funds are likely to fuel the abuse of public read more
Fazekas, M. – Chvalkovska, J. – Skuhrovec, J. – Tóth, I. J. – King L. P.: Are EU funds a corruption risk? The impact of EU funds on grand corruption in Central and Eastern Europe. Working Paper Series: CRCB-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 analyse a unique pooled database containing contract-level public procurement information for all three countries. We develop a composite corruption risks indicator based on the incidence and logical structure of ‘red flags’ in read more
Fazekas, M – Tóth, I. J. – King, L. P.: Anatomy of grand corruption: A composite corruption risk index based on objective data. Working Paper Series: CRCB-WP/2013:02.
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 from public contracts by corrupt networks as evidenced by academic literature, interviews and media content analysis. Feasibility and usefulness of the proposed indicators are read more