for private gain. We study the relationship between discretion and corruption in Italian government procurement auctions …, using a confidential database of firms and procurement officials investigated for corruption by Italian enforcement … chosen more often by officials who are themselves investigated for corruption, they are used less often in procurement …

for private gain. We study the relationship between discretion and corruption in Italian government procurement auctions …, using a confidential database of firms and procurement officials investigated for corruption by Italian enforcement … officials who are themselves investigated for corruption, they are used less often in procurement administrations in which at …

and rule-based auction procurement procedures. We show that adopting a two stage approach in which bureaucrats first … corruption risks often observed in negotiated procedures. For rule-based procedures, we show that a "third-price lottery" in …

the gain to corruption is big, a flexible procurement regulation may be better than a rigid procurement regulation. If the …I study a model of procurement with moral hazard and adverse selection. The procurer is either corrupt or honest and … can choose between sole-sourcing and competitive tender. I compare two procurement regulations: no sole-sourcing is …

After the 2014 uprising against widespread corruption under former Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych, a group of … civic activists and data experts decided to overhaul government procurement. Their efforts produced an open-source e-procurement … U.S. Strategy on Countering Corruption. Resilient in the chaos of war, ProZorro offers many lessons. It offers technical …

This paper presents a novel theory of corruption in public procurement. It considers an agency setting of contract … politician chooses a relatively lax auditing in order to create an incentive for cost-padding, and engages in corruption with the …

This research examines corruption in government procurement by studying auctions of incentive contracts. Government … simple linear contract, we study the incentives of private contractors to offer bribes and the incidence of corruption under … different contracting modes. Our results show that corruption is likely to decrease as contracts move away from fixed …

greater scope for alleged and actual corruption than in the case executive discretionary spending. Both Jamaica and Belize … potential instructions it offers for parliamentary oversight of executive procurement in the Commonwealth Caribbean …

procurement procedures and policy drivers explaining experience with corruption and public spending efficiency. …Potential economic benefits of integrity and anti-corruption policies seem large. Nevertheless, much of the existing … paper reviews OECD’s involvement in integrity and anti-corruption agenda as well as available indicators of integrity and …

press. Focusing on Italy, we generate a daily measure of exposition to local corruption screening articles of main Italian …The aim of this paper is to study the effect of local corruption on political participation which is mediated by the … press agency. Applying an event-study methodology on local elections, two results emerge. First, corruption exposition …