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The New Trends of Corruption Risk in Hungarian Public Procurement from January 1998 to July 2023

 

October 17, 2023

In 2023, the risk of corruption increased for public contracts awarded to crony companies, while it decreased for those awarded to ordinary Hungarian companies with no political ties. This suggests that, following the EU’s measures to restore the rule of law in Hungary, the advantage of crony companies in the Hungarian public procurement market actually increased. They have won public contracts with a higher risk of corruption than before the measures were taken.

The corruption risk of tenders won by read more

Fourteen Graphs and Two Tables on the New Trends of Corruption Risk in the Hungarian Public Procurement 2005-2022

 

February 7, 2023

 

This CRCB Report presents trends in corruption risk in Hungarian public procurement from 2005 to 2022, using 14 graphs and 2 tables. The report includes information from a contract-level dataset covering full-year 2022 data. The CRCB’s aim with this report is to inform EU taxpayers (especially Hungarian ones) within T+45 days about corruption risk trends in Hungary in read more

Corruption Risk and the Crony System in Hungary. A brief analysis of EU funded contracts in Hungarian public procurement 2005-2021

 

March 7, 2022

 

Research Notes 2022:2

 

Tables, figures, and database description (XLS)
Database in DTA and CSV format, and the STATA do file (ZIP)

 

Suggested citation:
Tóth, I. J. (2022). Corruption Risk and the Crony System in Hungary. A brief analysis of EU-funded contracts in Hungarian public procurement 2005-2021. read more

Factors Affecting the Corruption Risk and Intensity of Competition in Public Procurement at the Level of Local Government

 

December 21, 2020

 
Tóth, I. J. and Hajdu, M. 2020. Factors Affecting the Corruption Risk and Intensity of Competition in Public Procurement at the Level of Local Government. Working Paper Series: CRCB-WP/2020:1. Budapest: CRCB.
 

This paper investigates the level of corruption risk and intensity of competition of public tenders at the municipal level in Hungary. It analyses the relationship of these factors with the level of human capital, economic development, and settlement size. The paper’s novelty is the sub-national level, and that the research is based on microdata (contract level read more