corruption risks often observed in negotiated procedures. For rule-based procedures, we show that a "third-price lottery" in …

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 …, discretionary procedure auctions are associated with corruption only when conducted with fewer than the formally required number of …

After the 2014 uprising against widespread corruption under former Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych, a group of … U.S. Strategy on Countering Corruption. Resilient in the chaos of war, ProZorro offers many lessons. It offers technical … corruption after its 2014 revolution, ProZorro has persisted as a highly successful tool against corruption, as a means of …

, institutional constraints, critical inputs, and governance and corruption. It concludes by outlining policy options related to …

We study the effects of corruption on equilibrium competition and social welfare in a first-price public procurement … government, who may request a bribe from the winning firm afterward. We first show that, in the absence of corruption, the … bureaucrat will invite more than socially optimal number of firms into the auction. Secondly, the effects of corruption on …

The paper analyses the impact of incompetence and corruption in procurement auctions. The government plans to build a … to measurement errors: the measured quality may not be the same as the actual quality. There is also corruption in the … quality. We show that both incompetence and corruption result in reducing actual quality produced and the expected welfare. We …