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We study how policies limiting the spending capacity of local governments may reduce corruption. We exploit the … both recorded corruption rates and corruption charges per euro spent. This effect emerges only in areas in which the DSP … put a binding cap on municipal capital expenditures. The reduction in corruption is linked to accountability incentives as …
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Approximately 42% of European public procurement contracts are awarded to a sole bidder. As this market represents about one-seventh of GDP in developed countries, any inefficiency is a first-order concern. This paper examines a Czech reform that prohibited awarding such single-bid contracts....
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In many auctions, the auctioneer is an agent of the seller. This delegation invites corruption. In this paper we … propose a model of corruption, examine how corruption affects the auction game, how the anticipation of corruption affects … that may prevent corruption, and compare them to the fee schedules employed by major auction houses. …
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the gain to corruption is big, a flexible procurement regulation may be better than a rigid procurement regulation. If the … gain to corruption is sufficiently small, the flexible regulation may be worse or better than the rigid regulation …
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Can machine learning support better governance? In the context of Brazilian municipalities, 2001-2012, we have access … to detailed accounts of local budgets and audit data on the associated fiscal corruption. Using the budget variables as … predictors, we train a tree-based gradient-boosted classifier to predict the presence of corruption in held-out test data. The …
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different probabilities of re-election, and obtain different rents. The adoption of different forms of project governance …
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Discriminatory programs that favor local and small firms in government procurement are common in many countries. This paper studies the long-run impact of procurement discrimination on market structure and future competition in industries where learning-by-doing makes incumbent firms more...
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Centralization of public procurement can lower prices for the government's direct purchase of goods and services. This paper focuses on indirect savings. Public administrations that do not procure directly through a central procurement agency might benefit from the availability of...
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Corruption is the great disease of government. It undermines the efficiency of the public sector in many countries … around the world. We experimentally study civic engagement (CE) as a constraint on corruption when incentives are stacked … against providing CE. We show that CE is powerful in curbing corruption when citizens can encourage each other to provide CE …
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