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argues that reform cannot succeed unless policymakers confront the incentives for corruption built into the institutional … special features of healthcare that are conducive to corruption. Without denying the responsibility of individual corporate … practices. It argues that curbing the prevalent corruption requires efforts from companies, both domestic and foreign, and from …
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In a public procurement setting, we discuss the desirability of completing contracts with state-contingent clauses providing for monetary compensations to the contractor when revenue shocks occur. Realized shocks are private information of the contractor and this creates agency costs of...
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evidence, neither the magnitude of the problem nor the effectiveness of policies curbing such corruption is well-understood. In … contribute to controlling corruption in public procurement. We utilize aggregated official micro-level data on almost 3 million … contracts awarded across 29 European countries in 2009-2014 to measure the risk of high-level institutionalised corruption using …
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not common is the use of such a register to fight corruption. Slovakia has created a special model of the beneficial … country, because, similar to Slovakia, the phenomenon of corruption is here a widespread problem, especially in the field of … public procurement. Moreover, an anti-corruption campaign, aimed to clean the relations between the public and private sector …
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Corruption is widely spread across the world and is believed to affect economic growth negatively. It is most … procurement in Russia due to corruption. Unfortunately, to measure corruption is very challenging. In this paper, using the data … on procurement in one of the Russian regions as an example, we suggest and discuss different indicators of corruption …
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is therefore unsurprising that it is also one of the government functions most often vulnerable to corruption. While … there have been many qualitative accounts of high-level corruption in public contracting, it is only recently that … and support control of corruption …
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Many policymakers and researchers study and debate how to control and limit corruption. Few have examined the … mechanisms by which corruption distorts markets and how they may be influenced to mitigate negative effects. To develop this new … perspective, we study how corruption effects the structure of public contracting markets modelled as networks of connected buyers …
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