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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 …
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level lower than the announced. We compute equilibrium corruption and we study the impact on corruption of the … influence equilibrium corruption and show that, contrary to conventional wisdom, corruption may well be increasing in …
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Public procurement can be highly vulnerable to corruption. This paper outlines a methodology and results in assessing … corruption risks in public procurement and their impact on relative prices, using large databases on government contracts and … corruption risk factor (aggregated in a synthetic corruption risk index). While there are intrinsic limitations to our study …
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In this study, we investigate the correlation between corruption risk and the level of education in European sub … educational attainment is associated with lower corruption risk and a higher level of control of corruption, indicating that … better-educated locals may force authorities to limit corruption risk as they have less tolerance for corrupt behavior. In …
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Operation Car Wash began in 2014 and brought to light corruption schemes within public procurement. It prompted Brazil … to intensify its legal crusade against corruption and improbity. Brazil improved enforcement of rules long ignored, and …
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We compare two commonly used mechanisms in procurement: auctions and negotiations. The execution of the procurement mechanism is delegated to an agent of the buyer. The agent has private information about the buyer s preferences and may collude with one of the sellers. We provide a precise...
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We study the link between corruption and economic integration. We show that if an economic union establishes a common … regulation for public procurement, the country more prone to corruption benefits more from integration. However, if the … propensities to corruption are too distinct, the less corrupt country will not be willing to join the union. This difference in …
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We use a unique regulatory event that occurred in Queensland, Australia, from 2007- 2012, to examine the predictive power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State authority, the Urban Land Development Authority (ULDA),...
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corruption and decrease the large expenses associated with today's democratic election campaigns. Random mechanisms can be …
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Two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999 exposed rampant corruption involving construction and … zoning code violations. The government's relief efforts were tainted by corruption as well, and exhibited a great deal of … parties were responsible for the construction of the shoddy buildings, and for the corruption and mismanagement related to …
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