June 4, 2014
Brown Bag presentation given at the World Bank, Washington D.C., 4th of June 2014
ABSTRACT
As part of CRCB’s one-week visit to the World Bank (Operations Risk, Public Sector Governance and Integrity, and Controllers), Mihály Fazekas and István János Tóth gave a brown-bag lunch presentation. It introduced the CRCB approach to measuring corruption and collusion risks in public procurement worldwide. After demonstrating the feasibility and validity of read more
June 20, 2014
Presentation given at the Oxford Centre for the Study of Corruption and Transparency, University of Oxford, Kellogg College, 20th of June 2014.
ABSTRACT
Existing measures of corruption often suffer from bias and are too broad to guide policy or test theories. This paper proposes three new indirect indicators of high-level corruption in public procurement, using contract and organisation-level administrative data.
The first is a composite score expressing the probability of corruption read more
April 3, 2014
Presentation at the Midwest Political Science Association 72nd Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 3 April 2014.
State capture and corruption are widespread phenomena in transition economies such as Hungary. This paper has a two-fold goal: first, to demonstrate how a novel analytical framework for gauging state capture works using the example of Hungary during 2009-2012; second, to systematically analyse how captor group organisation influences the read more
March 20, 2014
Presentation at the Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, 20. March 2014.
The presentation: (PDF)
Suggested citation:
Fazekas, M., & Tóth, I. J. (2014, March 20). Anatomy of Grand Corruption: A Composite Corruption Risk Index Based on Objective Data [Presentation]. Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, read more
February 4, 2014
The Corruption Research Center Budapest team wins the U4 Proxy Challenge competition for measuring corruption.
On the 4th of February 2014, the CRCB team, István János Tóth and Mihály Fazekas, participated in the Proxy Challenge workshop in Bergen (Norway) organised by the U4-Anti-Corruption Resource Centre. In a competition with four other finalist teams, CRCB has won this global competition for proposing novel corruption measures, including innovative indicators of institutionalised grand corruption in public read more
December 13, 2013
Presentation at the Hungarian Society of Economics 7th Annual Conference, Budapest, Hungary, 20. December 2013.
The Presentation: (PDF)
Suggested citation:
Fazekas, M., Tóth, I. J., & King, L. P. (2013, December 20). Anatomy of grand corruption: A composite corruption risk index based on objective data [Presentation at the Hungarian Society of Economics 7th Annual Conference, read more
December 11, 2013
Presentation at the Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis, University of Manchester, Manchester, 11 December 2013.
The presentation: (PDF)
Suggested citation:
Fazekas, M., & Tóth, I. J. (2013). In Respectable Society: On How Networks and Institutionalised Grand Corruption Interact in Hungary [Presentation]. The Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis, University of Manchester, Manchester, read more
October 11, 2012
Presentation at the DVPW conference (German Comparative Political Science Association), Leipzig, Germany, 11. October 2012.
The presentation: (PDF)
Suggested citation:
Fazekas, M., Chvalkovska, J., Skuhrovec, J., Tóth, I. J., King, L. P. (2012, October 11). Curse of EU Funds in Central and Eastern Europe? How EU Funds Impact Grand Corruption [Conference Presentation]. Conference of the German Comparative Political Science read more
June 20, 2013
Presentation at the National Development Agency, Budapest, Hungary, 20 June 2013. [in Hungarian]
The presentation: (PDF)
Suggested citation:
Fazekas, M. & Tóth, I. J. (2013, June 20). Közbeszerzési korrupciós kockázatok: EU alapok, szerződéses hálózatok. (Corruption risks in public procurement: EU funds, contractual networks) [Presentation]. The Hungarian National Development Agency, Budapest, read more
April 26, 2013
Presentation at the 9th Annual Conference of the Hungarian Network for Social Network Analysis. Centre for Social Sciences HAS, Budapest, Országház utca 30. 26 April 2013.
The presentation: (PDF)
Suggested citation:
Fazekas, M., & Tóth, I. J. (2013, April 26). Networks and Grand Corruption in Hungary. Exploratory Analysis [Conference Presentation]. The 9th Annual Conference of the Hungarian Network for Social Network Analysis, read more