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Does corruption and the institutional characteristics of the contracting authorities affect the execution of healthcare infrastructures?

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  • Marina Cavalieri
  • Calogero Guccio
  • Ilde Rizzo

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Purpose - This paper aims at contributing to the research on the role played by corruption in the health procurement by use non-parametric techniques to examine whether the efficient execution of Italian public contracts for healthcare infrastructures is affected by socio-economic variables (including the level of “environmental” corruption) in the area where the work is localised and by the institutional features of the contracting authority. Design/methodology/approach - A data envelopment analysis (DEA) is applied to a sample of 405 contracts during the period 2000-2005. Smoothed bootstrap techniques to calculate confidence intervals for the estimated efficiency parameters along with different non-parametric tests and kernel density estimates are used. Findings - Results show that “environmental” corruption negatively influences the performance of healthcare infrastructures. Furthermore, healthcare contracting authorities appear to be less efficient than other public bodies acting as procurers. Originality/value - The paper highlights the role of environmental corruption in the provision of healthcare infrastructures.

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  • Marina Cavalieri & Calogero Guccio & Ilde Rizzo, 2018. "Does corruption and the institutional characteristics of the contracting authorities affect the execution of healthcare infrastructures?," Journal of Public Procurement, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 18(2), pages 148-164, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:jopppp:jopp-06-2018-010
    DOI: 10.1108/JOPP-06-2018-010
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    1. Finocchiaro Castro, Massimo & Guccio, Calogero & Rizzo, Ilde, 2023. "How "one-size-fits-all" public works contract does it better? An assessment of infrastructure provision in Italy," EconStor Preprints 270729, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
    2. Vidoli, Francesco & Pignataro, Giacomo & Benedetti, Roberto, 2022. "Identification of spatial regimes of the production function of Italian hospitals through spatially constrained cluster-wise regression," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 82(PA).
    3. Massimo Finocchiaro Castro & Calogero Guccio, 2021. "Does greater discretion improve the performance in the execution of public works? Evidence from the reform of discretionary thresholds in Italy," Working papers 108, Società Italiana di Economia Pubblica.
    4. Marina Cavalieri & Rossana Cristaudo & Livio Ferrante & Calogero Guccio, 2019. "Does the Project Design Matter for the Performance of Infrastructure Execution? An Assessment for Italy," Italian Economic Journal: A Continuation of Rivista Italiana degli Economisti and Giornale degli Economisti, Springer;Società Italiana degli Economisti (Italian Economic Association), vol. 5(1), pages 39-77, March.
    5. Matthias Klumpp & Dominic Loske, 2021. "Long-Term Economic Sustainability of Humanitarian Logistics—A Multi-Level and Time-Series Data Envelopment Analysis," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(5), pages 1-19, February.

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