estimations suggest that national governance factors, such as democratic accountability, press freedom, and rule of law, are …

Government Procurement (GPA) is emerging as a multi-dimensional tool of trade, governance and development. The thesis of this …

This paper examines the relationship between corruption and the composition of public expenditures. First, I derive a … theoretical model that links the degree of corruption in a country - to be understood as the prevailing culture of corruption - to … corruption. This distortion occurs at the expense of spending categories that do not involve public procurement (social …

In this paper we theoretically analyse effects of corruption in public procurements within a scoring-auction framework … politician selects the scoring rule. The paper shows that such corruption always leads to lower quality and lower price. Given a … level of corruption, a higher bargaining power of the politician in extracting bribes does not affect the quality but leads …

This paper examines the relation between political corruption and the composition of public spending. A rent …-seeking model is used to describe political rent creation through the composition of public spending. Political corruption is … categories characterized by high-technology goods supplied by non-competitive industries varies positively with the Corruption …

This paper examines the measures and means used to fight against corruption in public procurement in Albania. Because … bribery. The question marks that this paper raises are: what are the means used in the war against corruption in the public … procurement field in Albania? Did they had any real impact or they just reshaped the ways of doing corruption? The main finding of …

the outcomes of procurement procedures - competition, corruption, and control. Using the open information we evaluate … level of corruption in the region and increases the utilization of control mechanisms. We also show that the more …