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Uncovering High-Level Corruption: Cross-National Objective Corruption Risk Indicators Using Public Procurement Data

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  • Fazekas, Mihály
  • Kocsis, Gábor

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Measuring high-level corruption is subject to extensive scholarly and policy interest, which has achieved moderate progress in the last decade. This article develops two objective proxy measures of high-level corruption in public procurement: single bidding in competitive markets and a composite score of tendering ‘red flags’. Using official government data on 2.8 million contracts in twenty-eight European countries in 2009–14, we directly operationalize a common definition of corruption: unjustified restriction of access to public contracts to favour a selected bidder. Corruption indicators are calculated at the contract level, but produce aggregate indices consistent with well-established country-level indicators, and are also validated by micro-level tests. Data are published at http://digiwhist.eu/resources/data/.

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  • Fazekas, Mihály & Kocsis, Gábor, 2020. "Uncovering High-Level Corruption: Cross-National Objective Corruption Risk Indicators Using Public Procurement Data," British Journal of Political Science, Cambridge University Press, vol. 50(1), pages 155-164, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:bjposi:v:50:y:2020:i:1:p:155-164_7
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    1. Florin Alexandru Roman & Monica Violeta Achim & Robert W. McGee, 2023. "Fraud related to EU funds. The case of Romania," Journal of Financial Studies, Institute of Financial Studies, vol. 8(14), pages 120-142, May.
    2. Fazekas,Mihály & Blum,Jurgen Rene, 2021. "Improving Public Procurement Outcomes : Review of Tools and the State of the Evidence Base," Policy Research Working Paper Series 9690, The World Bank.
    3. Lisciandra, Maurizio & Milani, Riccardo & Millemaci, Emanuele, 2022. "A corruption risk indicator for public procurement," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 73(C).
    4. Aristotelis Mavidis & Dimitris Folinas, 2022. "From Public E-Procurement 3.0 to E-Procurement 4.0; A Critical Literature Review," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(18), pages 1-23, September.
    5. Adilson Sampaio & Paulo Figueiredo & Klarizze Anne Martin Puzon, 2022. "Anticompetitive practices on public procurement: Evidence from Brazilian electronic biddings," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2022-42, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).

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