Tag Archives: intensity of competition

Brief analysis on the cronyism in Hungary

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24 December 2017

Before the issuers publish their calls for tenders, they have to calculate the estimated price of the procurement. This calculation can be based on their experience from previous tenders and on the results of market research.  The price drop between the estimated value and the actual contract price can be regarded as a proxy for measure the intensity of competition. The higher competition between the bidders will result in more intense price competition what should lead to lower read more

Intensity of Competition, Corruption Risks, and Price Distortion in the Hungarian Public Procurement – 2009-2016

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December 29, 2017

 

Tóth, I. J. and Hajdu, M. 2017. Intensity of Competition, Corruption Risks, and Price Distortion in the Hungarian Public Procurement – 2009-2016. Working Paper Series: CRCB-WP/2017:2, CRCB, Budapest.

The report was carried out by CRCB for the European Commission and examines data from Hungarian public procurement in the period between 2009 and 2016. The data of 151,457 contracts were used for the analysis. The analysis focuses on information regarding the read more

Corruption risks, intensity of competition and estimated direct social loss in public procurement of Zagreb – 2011-2016

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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

CMS & CRCB joint Press Conference in Zagreb

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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).

The press release in Croatian

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

Versenyerősség, társadalmi veszteségek és a 25 millió forintos értékhatár rejtélye. 2009-2016 közötti magyar közbeszerzések statisztikai vizsgálata

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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

Consultacy with the Commission of Budgetary Control of European Parliament

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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

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

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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). Analysing Corruption as Black Holes: Intensity of Competition, Corruption Risks & read more

Analysing Corruption as Black Holes – A Study on Hungarian Public Procurement

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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