Tag Archives: intensity of competition

The New Trends of Corruption Risk in Hungarian Public Procurement from January 1998 to July 2023

Publications, Research Notes, Short Paperscorruption, corruption risk, cronyism, Hungary, intensity of competition, odds of winning, public procurement

October 17, 2023

The New Trends of Corruption Risk in Hungarian Public Procurement from January 1998 to July 2023

In 2023, corruption risk increased for public contracts won by crony companies, while it decreased for those won by ordinary Hungarian companies with no political ties. This suggests that, following the EU’s measures to restore the rule of law in Hungary, the advantage of crony companies in the Hungarian public procurement market actually increased. They have won public contracts with read more

Factors Affecting the Corruption Risk and Intensity of Competition in Public Procurement at the Level of Local Government

Publications, Working Paperscorruption risk, Hungary, intensity of competition, local government, public procurement

December 21, 2020

Tóth, I. J. and Hajdu, M. 2020. Factors Affecting the Corruption Risk and Intensity of Competition in Public Procurement at the Level of Local Government. Working Paper Series: CRCB-WP/2020:1. Budapest: CRCB.

This paper investigates the level of corruption risk and intensity of competition of public tenders at the municipal level in Hungary. It analyses the relationship of these factors with the level of human capital, economic development, and settlement size. The paper’s novelty is the sub-national level, and that the research is based on microdata (contract level read more

New Trends in Corruption Risk and Intensity of Competition in the Hungarian Public Procurement

Publications, Research Notes, Short Paperscorr, corruption risk, cronyism, Hungary, intensity of competition, public procurement

May 26, 2020

New Trends in Corruption Risk and Intensity of Competition in the Hungarian Public Procurement from January 2005 to April 2020. CRCB Flash Report 2020:1. Budapest: CRCB
This report examines Hungarian public procurement data between 2005 and 2020. Data from 248,404 contracts were used for the analysis, focusing on information about corruption risk, the intensity of competition, and political favoritism.

The results show that in the first four months of 2020, corruption risk in read more

Cronyism in Hungary

Presentations, Publicationscorruption risks, cronyism, Hungary, intensity of competition, public procurement

April 26, 2020

Crony System in Hungary

This video presents some new results of an ongoing research project of the CRCB.
The research project is supported by Hungarian citizens and Hungarian companies.

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September 12, 2019

Toth, I. J. – M. Hajdu. 2019. Cronyism in Hungary. An empirical analysis of public tenders 2010-2018.

Presentation in the workshop of IWE HAS

The slides of the presentation: read more

A magyar önkormányzatok által megkötött közbeszerzési szerződések adatainak rendezett adattáblája – 2005-2018. A CRCB adatközlése.

Databasescorruption risks, dataset, Hungary, intensity of competition, local government, public procurement

2019. szeptember 10.

A közbeszerzési adatok rendezett formában, adattáblában való közlésével a CRCB segíteni szeretné a magyar állampolgárok tájékozódását.

Véleményünk szerint az az adatközlési forma a legjobb, amely áttekinthető és megkönnyíti a szerződés szintű adatok statisztikai elemzését. Mindez a transzparenciát és korrupció elleni fellépést szolgálja. A transzparencia ugyanis nagyon fontos eszköz a korrupció elleni fellépésben. Minél read more

Missing Data, Intensity of Competition and Corruption Risks

Publications, Reportscorruption risks, Hungary, intensity of competition, missing data, public procurement

October 18, 2018

Missing Data, Intensity of Competition and Corruption Risks.
Analysis of Contract Award Notices of Hungarian Public Procurement Published from January 2005 to August 2018. Flash Report 2018:1, CRCB, Budapest, October 2018.

Flash Report 2018:1
Tables & Figures (pdf, xlsx)

List of 268,404 analysed contract award notices, with url, date, issuer’s name and filter variable read more

The intensity of competition, corruption risks, and the winner companies

Publications, Research Notes, Short Paperscapital, corruption risk, empirical analyis, EU, intensity of competition, public procurement, winner companies

5 July 2018

Istvan Janos Toth – Miklos Hajdu: The Intensity of competition, corruption risks, and the winner companies. Analysis of public procurement of a European capital 2011-2016. CRCB, Budapest, July 5, 2018.

The paper in Hungarian (pdf)

Database in Stata format (dta)

Stata do file read more

Cronyism in Hungary. Empirical analysis of public tenders 2010-2016

Presentations, Publicationscorruption risk, cronyism, Hungary, intensity of competition, political favoritism, public procurement

21 February 2018.

Presentation at the conference “János Kornai 90th birthday ” at Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest,
21-22 February 2018

Abstract

In this paper, we use the public procurement database which contains data from more than 230,000 public tenders from 1997 to 2017. The analysis is based on data from 126,330 public procurement contracts from 2010 to 2016. The focus of the analysis is public tenders (without framework agreements) won by companies related to cronies and read more

How does the Kleptocratic State Work in Hungary?

Publications, Research Notes, Short Paperscorruption risk, cronyism, empirical analyis, intensity of competition, political favoritism, public procurement

István János Tóth – Miklós Hajdu: How does the Kleptocratic State Work in Hungary? A research note based on Hungarian public procurement data. CRCB, Budapest, January 2018.

26 January 2018

In this research note, we use the public procurement database built by CRCB, which contains data from more than 200,000 public tenders from 1997 to 2017. The analysis is based on data from 126,330 public procurement contracts from 2010 to 2016. The focus of the analysis is public tenders (without framework agreements) won by companies related to cronies and read more

Public tenders of Hungarian hospitals on the standard dissection table of the economic analysis

Publications, Research Notes, Short Paperscollusion, corruption risks, empirical analyis, Hungary, intensity of competition, price distortion, public procurement

24 January 2018

István János Tóth – Miklós Hajdu: Public tenders of Hungarian hospitals on the standard dissection table of the economic analysis. Analysis of intensity of competition, corruption risks and price distortion of Hungarian public procurement. Budapest: CRCB, January, 2018.

Abstract

In the following short paper, we analyse the contracts of a Hungarian EU-funded programme (KEOP – 5.6.0/E/15) involved in an ongoing investigation of the Hungarian Competition Authority (HCA). The investigation was started for suspect of collusion and among the suspects involved are both Hungarian owned firms and read more