November 9, 2017
A rablóállam nyomában: magyar közbeszerzések empirikus elemzése 2009-2016. Előadás a Budapest Science Meetup-on (PDF)
Abstract
In the presentation, we examined the effect of friendship and family ties with the Hungarian Prime Minister (Viktor Orbán) on the intensity of competition in public tenders won by companies owned by his close friends and family members. The analysis is based on more than 151,000 Hungarian public procurement tenders from 2009 read more
11 October 2017
The research carried out by CRCB for the CMS is based on the analysis of 5,922 contracts of 4,483 public procurement issued by Grad Zagreb and Zagreb Holding between 2011 and 2016. During the data extraction, we could identify 1,197 winner companies on these tenders which are also the subject of the investigation.
The paper deals with the following questions: (i) What are the tendencies regarding the strength of competition and the corruption risks during the analysed time read more
October 10, 2017
The CRCB team presented the results of the study “Intensity of Competition, Corruption Risk and Estimation of Direct Social Loss in Public Procurement of Zagreb” on October 10th, 2017, in Zagreb, which was financed by the Centre for Peace Studies (Centar za Mirovne Studije).
Presentation of the press conference (PDF)
Detailed presentation of the results & methods (PDF)
The paper in English (PDF)
Presentation on the DCPP software (PDF) and on the SPSS read more
September 27, 2017
Tóth, I. J. – Hajdu, M. 2017. Versenyerősség, társadalmi veszteségek és a 25 millió forintos értékhatár rejtélye. 2009-2016 közötti magyar közbeszerzések statisztikai vizsgálata / Intensity of Competition, Social Loss and the Enigma of 25 million HUF Threshold. Statistical analysis of Hungarian public procurement in the period of 2009-2016. Working Paper Series: CRCB-WP/2017:1, CRCB, Budapest.
Abstract
In this paper, we present evidence on some unwanted and unexpected effects of the regulation of read more
September 18, 2017
The head of CRCB participated as an expert in the consultation with the Commission of Budgetary Control of the European Parliament on Monday, September 18th, in Budapest, and presented the CRCB’s research results on corruption risks, intensity of competition, and the phenomenon of political favouritism in Hungarian public procurement.
The presentation: (PDF)
The handout: (PDF)
Data publication. The list of public tenders won by Orban’s close friends and read more
July 3, 2017
The head of CRCB attended the LEAR Public Procurement Conference – 2017 as a guest speaker. The presentation dealt with the analytical framework used by CRCB to analyse corruption risks, the intensity of competition, and price distortions, and demonstrated some results on these topics for Italian public procurement.
The presentation (PDF)
Suggested citation:
Tóth, I. J. (2017, July 3). Analyzing Corruption as Black Holes: Intensity of Competition, Corruption Risks & read more
June 22, 2017
Presentation for a meeting in the building of the EU Commission, Brussels. The presentation deals with three issues. (1) It presents the analytical framework of corruption risks and competititon intensity of public tenders used by CRCB; (2) it deals with the results of report “Intensity of Competition, Corruption Risks and Price Distortion in the Hungarian Public Procurement – 2009-2016″ made by CRCB for the European Commission; (3) and it demonstrates some read more
30 May 2017
In these short papers we analyse the effect of friendship and family ties with the Hungarian Prime Minister (Viktor Orban) on the competitive intensity of public tenders won by companies owned by his close friends and family members. The analysis is based on more than 151,000 Hungarian public procurement tenders in the period of 2009-2016. Using OLS and ordered logit estimations, we estimate the effect of the friendship and family ties on the competitive intensity of tenders. The results point out read more
1 October 2016
The paper explores how the international media dealt with refugee crisis in Hungary between March and September 2015. We selected all articles from The New York Times, The Washington Post, Le Monde, Le Figaro, Mirror, The Telegraph, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Süddeutsche Zeitung which contained the words “Hungary” or “Hungarian” or “migrant” or “migration”. Our sample contains 1,518 news articles. During the analysis we used the technics of quantitative and qualitative read more
September 16, 2016
Presentation of the CRCB’s new research results in the William Gates Building of the Computer Laboratory at the conference “Frontiers of Data Science for Government: Ideas, Practices, and Projections. Data for Policy -2016” organised by the University of Cambridge.
The presentation covered corruption risk detection, measuring competitive intensity, and a new way to analyse overpricing suggested by the CRCB’s researchers. Based on statistical analyses of 127,000 Hungarian read more