A model of entrepreneurial choices in an economy with a corrupt public procurement sector is built, providing … predictions along two main dimensions. First, corruption is more frequent in sectors where public institutions are large buyers …. Second, firms favoured with corrupt contracts enjoy extra returns, so that procurement related activities attract the best …

A model of entrepreneurial choices in an economy with a corrupt public procurement sector is built, providing … predictions along two main dimensions. First, corruption is more frequent in sectors where public institutions are large buyers …. Second, firms favoured with corrupt contracts enjoy extra returns, so that procurement related activities attract the best …

, including 35 years of the longest dictatorship in South America. Using data of all the public procurement transactions from 2004 …

, including 35 years of the longest dictatorship in South America. Using data of all the public procurement transactions from 2004 …

procurement contracts and invest more than do firms connected to the loser. …

product, we compare procurement contracts in which the procurer is either a public administration or a private corporation. We …

We compare procurement contracts where the procurer is either a public agent or a private corporation. Using …

Public procurement outcomes depend on the ability of the procuring agency to select high-performing suppliers. Should … misallocation of public funds. These effects are concentrated among lower quality procurement agencies …

qualitative evidence on public procurement corruption and a statistical analysis of a public procurement data in Hungary. The …Although both the academic and policy communities have attached great importance to measuring corruption, most of the … indicator of grand corruption based on a wide range of elementary indicators. These indicators are derived from a rich …

corruption in the context of public procurement. Each indicator rests on a thorough qualitative understanding of rent extraction …This paper develops 30 novel quantitative indicators of grand corruption that operationalize 20 distinct techniques of …. Feasibility and usefulness of the proposed indicators are demonstrated using micro-level public procurement data from Hungary in …