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Distribution of the EU Funds in Hungary: Challenges and Anomalies

Tóth István János — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:58:20 +0000

February 15, 2026

Boros, J., Hajdu, M., Magyari, P., Vida, M., & Tóth, I. J. (2026). Distribution of the EU Funds in Hungary: Challenges and Anomalies. CRCB. https://www.crcb.eu/?p=4013

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Why is it Necessary for Hungary to join the European Public Prosecutor’s Office?

Tóth István János — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 05:49:21 +0000

September 24, 2025

Tóth, I. J. (2025, September 24). Why is it Necessary for Hungary to join the European Public Prosecutor’s Office?
Some Empirical Evidence and Considerations [Presentation]. European Parliament, PETI Public Hearing, Brussels, Belgium. https://www.crcb.eu/?p=3725

Presentation at PETI Public Hearing ‘How could Hungary’s accession to the European Public Prosecutor’s Office help to unlock EU funds for Hungary’, September 24, 2025, 14:30-16:00; Brussels, European Parliament.

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Corruption Risk of EU-Funded Contracts in the EU 2007-2023

Tóth István János — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 09:31:25 +0000

July 19, 2024

Tóth, I, J. (2024). Corruption Risk of EU-Funded Contracts in the EU 2007-2023. CRCB Working Papers: 2024:1, CRCB.

Working Papers: 2024:1 (PDF)

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Corruption Risk and Education in Europe

Tóth István János — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 11:19:27 +0000

January 2, 2024

Dataset Disclosure for Study of Hajdu, M. & Tóth, I.J. (2023). Corruption Risk and Education at the Regional Level.

Datasets (ZIP [CSV] & ZIP [CSV])

Tesztelés, politikai korrupció és Covid-19 halálozás

Tóth István János — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 16:23:17 +0000

2021. június 8.

Tóth I. J. 2021. Tesztelés, politikai korrupció és Covid-19 halálozás. [Testing, political corruption and Covid-19 mortality. ] CRCB Research Notes: 2021:2, Budapest: CRCB. https://bit.ly/3cqeHsn

Abstract

The paper deals with the impact of political (grand) corruption and government measures against the pandemic on the Covid-19 mortality rate using data of EU27 and OECD countries. The share of the positive tests within all tests is considered an indicator of government measures’ impact. We use the data of the World Bank and Our World in Data. The political corruption is measured by the 2019 read more

Magyarország a NER útján

Tóth István János — Sat, 06 Mar 2021 17:35:55 +0000

2021. március 6.

Adatok (zip)

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Corruption, Institutions and Convergence. Empirical Analysis of Public Tenders of the Old and New EU Member States and Three Developing Countries

Tóth István János — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 19:04:31 +0000

December 13, 2019

Tóth, István János – Hajdu, Miklós. 2019. Corruption, Institutions and Convergence. Empirical Analysis of Public Tenders of the Old and New EU Member States and Three Developing Countries. Budapest: CRCB.

Abstract

This paper focuses on the measurement of institutional convergence in the new EU member states and four Southern European EU member countries. Previous studies have used perception data or expert surveys at the country level to quantify institutional convergence. We present a new method that is based on hard micro-level data. Our approach focuses on read more

The intensity of competition, corruption risks, and the winner companies

Tóth István János — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 18:13:18 +0000

5 July 2018

Istvan Janos Toth – Miklos Hajdu: The Intensity of competition, corruption risks, and the winner companies. Analysis of public procurement of a European capital 2011-2016. CRCB, Budapest, July 5, 2018.

The paper in Hungarian (pdf)

Database in Stata format (dta)

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Analysing Corruption as Black Holes – Intensity of Competiton, CorruptionRisks & Price Distortion

Tóth István János — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 17:46:10 +0000

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