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Competitive intensity and family business

Tóth István János — Tue, 30 May 2017 08:26:33 +0000

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

Competitive Intensity, Overpricing, Corruption Risks and Crony Capitalism in Hungary 2009-2015

Tóth István János — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 16:43:33 +0000

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

Competitive Intensity and Corruption Risks in the Hungarian Public Procurement 2009-2015

Tóth István János — Sat, 20 Aug 2016 16:51:48 +0000

20 August 2016
István János Tóth – Miklós Hajdu. 2016. Competitive Intensity and Corruption Risks in the Hungarian Public Procurement 2009-2015. CRCB Short Papers/2016:1

This short paper examines data from Hungarian public procurement in the period 2009-15. The data from 127,776 contracts were used for the analysis. The analysis focuses on information regarding the competitive intensity, price distortion, and corruption risks. We also analyze the performance of EU funded projects from these read more