December 7, 2023
István János Tóth, Miklós Hajdu and Márton Vida: Testing Corruption Indicators. Statistical Analysis of a Hungarian Cartel.
Budapest: KRTK-KTI WP – 2023/33. (pdf)
Tag Archives: corruption risk
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
Hungary: Corruption risk in public procurement from 2005 to 2022
Corruption Risk and the Crony System in Hungary. A brief analysis of EU funded contracts in Hungarian public procurement 2005-2021
March 7, 2022
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
Two tendencies in the Hungarian public procurement
February 9, 2022
Tóth I. J. 2022. Two tendencies in the Hungarian public procurement. CRCB Research Notes: 2022:1, Budapest: CRCB
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
Magyarország a NER útján
The Strabag in the Hungarian Public Procurement market
New Trends in Corruption Risk and Intensity of Competition in the Hungarian Public Procurement
May 26, 2020
This report examines Hungarian public procurement data between 2005 and 2020. Data from 248,404 contracts were used for the analysis, focusing on information about corruption risk, the intensity of competition, and political favoritism.
The results show that in the first four months of 2020, corruption risk in Hungarian public procurement reached the highest level since 2005; by April 30, the share of contracts without competition was 41 percent. The control of corruption risk read more