December 9, 2022
International Anti-Corruption Day – Budapest
Hungary: Corruption risk in public procurement from 2005 to 2022
Six figures on the Hungarian corruption and competition in public procurement (PDF, DOCX)
Tag Archives: public procurement
Azok a csodálatos “Mészáros” cégek
Néhány ábra Mészáros Lőrinc és társai “tulajdonában lévő” cégek szerepéről és jellegzetességeiről a magyar közbeszerzési piacon
2022. szeptember 14.
Mészáros és társai “tulajdonában lévő” cégek részesedésének alakulása a magyar közbeszerzési tortából 2005-2021, N = 276.452, százalék
A Mészáros és társai által egyedül, vagy konzorciumban nyert szerződések értéke az adott kategóriához tartozó összes szerződés értékének százalékában
Mészáros és read more
Disclosure of Hungarian Public Procurement Data 2005-2021
June 1, 2022
Public contracts in CSV and DTA format with data description (zip)
Suggested citation:
CRCB. 2022. Disclosure of Hungarian Public Procurement Data 2005-2021. Budapest: Corruption Research Center Budapest. June 1, 2022.
May 23, 2022
Public contracts in CSV and DTA format with data description (zip)
Suggested citation:
CRCB. 2022. Disclosure of Hungarian Public Procurement Data 2005-2021. Budapest: Corruption Research Center Budapest. May 23, 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
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
Political favoritism in public tenders in Hungary. Analysis of the odds of winning
November 30, 2021
Tóth, I. J. and Hajdu, M. 2021. Political favoritism in public tenders in Hungary. Analysis of the odds of winning. Working Paper Series: CRCB-WP/2021:1. Budapest: CRCB.
The paper investigates the crony system in Hungary based on data of more than 227,000 public tenders from 2005 to 2020. The paper’s novelty is the analysis of odds of winning of crony and ordinary companies in public procurement that is a new approach to measure the strength of read more
Orban’s cronies in the Hungarian public tenders in construction, 2005-2020
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
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