February 19, 2024
CRCB. 2024. Two Communication Companies in the Hungarian Public Procurement Market 2012-2023. CRCB Research Notes: 2024:1, CRCB.
Research Notes: 2024:1 (PDF)
The analyzed database (CSV)
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
February 7, 2023
This CRCB Statistical Quick Report shows the trends of corruption risk in Hungarian public procurement from 2005 to 2022 through fourteen graphs and two tables. The report includes information based on a contract-level dataset with full-year 2022 data. The CRCB’s aim with this report is to inform the EU taxpayers (especially the Hungarian ones) within T+45 days on corruption risk trends in Hungary in read more
Néhány ábra Mészáros Lőrinc és társai “tulajdonában lévő” cégek szerepéről és jellegzetességeiről a magyar közbeszerzési piacon
2022. szeptember 14.
Mészáros és társai “tulajdonában lévő” cégek részesedésének alakulása a magyar közbeszerzési tortából 2005-2021, N = 276.452, százalék
A Mészáros és társai által egyedül, vagy konzorciumban nyert szerződések értéke az adott kategóriához tartozó összes szerződés értékének százalékában
Mészáros és read more
June 1, 2022
Public contracts in CSV and DTA format with data description (zip)
Suggested citation:
CRCB. 2022. Disclosure of Hungarian Public Procurement Data 2005-2021. Budapest: Corruption Research Center Budapest. June 1, 2022.
May 23, 2022
Public contracts in CSV and DTA format with data description (zip)
Suggested citation:
CRCB. 2022. Disclosure of Hungarian Public Procurement Data 2005-2021. Budapest: Corruption Research Center Budapest. May 23, read more
March 7, 2022
Tóth I. J. 2022. Corruption Risk and the Crony System in Hungary. A brief analysis of EU-funded contracts in Hungarian public procurement 2005-2021. CRCB Research Notes: 2022:2, Budapest: CRCB
Research Notes 2022:2
Tables, figures and database description (xlsx)
Database in DTA and CSV format and the STATA do file read more
February 9, 2022
Tóth I. J. 2022. Two tendencies in the Hungarian public procurement. CRCB Research Notes: 2022:1, Budapest: CRCB
November 30, 2021
Tóth, I. J. and Hajdu, M. 2021. Political favoritism in public tenders in Hungary. Analysis of the odds of winning. Working Paper Series: CRCB-WP/2021:1. Budapest: CRCB.
The paper investigates the crony system in Hungary based on data of more than 227,000 public tenders from 2005 to 2020. The paper’s novelty is the analysis of odds of winning of crony and ordinary companies in public procurement that is a new approach to measure the strength of read more