March 11, 2019
Transparency and Integrity: The Online Presence of Hungarian Municipalities. Analysis of urban municipalities’ websites in Hungary – 2018
Results of a joint research program with Budapest Institute
The transparency of the operation of the local governments and the follow-up of their decision-making process by the citizens are very important to achieve good governance. It is vital that citizens should easily access the data concerning the decisions made by their local read more
March 8, 2019
CRCB. 2019. The EU funds, Viktor Orbán and the performance of firms owned by Lőrinc Mészáros, the Hungarian gas fitter, in the Hungarian public tenders 2005-2018. Budapest: CRCB.
Based on the empirical analysis of the Hungarian public tenders we pointed out that the EU funding has perverse effects in Hungary: it helps to reduce the intensity of competition, to increase the level of corruption risk and the weight of price distortion, and it generated the growth of the estimated direct social loss due to weak competition and high level of corruption risks from 2009 to 2016. The analysis on public tenders won by read more
May 30, 2019
CRCB. 2019. An Explanatory Model on the Reorganization of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and on the Expropriation of its Research Institutes. CRCB Research Notes: 2019:6, Budapest: CRCB.
This short analysis deals with a possible interpretation scheme of the real objectives of the Hungarian government with the forced transformation of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) and the destitution of the network of its research institutes in 14 points. With this read more
2019. január 29.
KÉRJÜK TÁMOGASD A CRCB-T, HOGY AZ ALÁBBI KUTATÁST MEGVALÓSÍTHASSUK!
Közbeszerzéseink tisztaságáról: avagy az elmúlt 14 év ajánlatkérőinek és nyerteseinek hálózati elemzése
Empirikus elemzés a 15.000 legnagyobb magyar közbeszerzési szerződés adatai alapján. CRCB, 2019
I. Mennyi támogatásra van szükség a kutatás elvégzéséhez?
Ehhez legalább 2.285.000 forintra lenne szükség.
Február 23-ig 2.982.000 forintot adtak össze támogatóink:
Támogatóinknak köszönjük a bizalmat!
II. Mi az elemzés célja?
Adatokra – vagyis tényekre alapozva – láthatóvá fogjuk tenni, hogy hogyan alakult a 15.000 legnagyobb értékű közbeszerzési szerződésnél a magas korrupciós read more
September 17, 2018
In this paper, we use a public procurement database containing data on more than 230,000 public tenders from 1997 to 2017. The analysis is based on data from 126,330 public procurement contracts from 2010 to 2016. The research was supported by the Hungarian National Scientific Fund (OTKA, K116860). The focus of the analysis is public tenders (without framework agreements) awarded to companies associated with cronies and family members of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor read more
November 8, 2018
The report deals with the results of 2018 CRCB’s survey which focused on the data publication practices of 118 public procurement authorities around the world based on an empirical analysis of their websites. We analyse two main questions: (i) how easily accessible the data of public tenders at contract level are in the analysed websites; (ii) which pieces of information in contract level are accessible in structured and downloaded format. The report describes read more
October 18, 2018
Missing Data, Intensity of Competition and Corruption Risks.
Analysis of Contract Award Notices of Hungarian Public Procurement Published from January 2005 to August 2018. Flash Report 2018:1, CRCB, Budapest, October 2018.
Flash Report 2018:1
Tables & Figures (pdf, xlsx)
List of 268,404 analysed contract award notices, with url, date, issuer’s name and filter variable read more