Publications

  • The Quest for Good Governance: How Societies Develop Control of Corruption

    Why do some societies manage to control corruption so that it manifests itself only occasionally, while other societies remain systemically corrupt? This book is about how societies reach that point when integrity becomes the norm and corruption the exception in regard to how public affairs are run and public resources are allocated. It primarily asks […]

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

    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 […]

  • D5.2 Project Website

    The overall aim of the website www.digiwhist.eu is to represent the DIGIWHIST project as a static webpage and provide internal and external links to important public procurement resources. It provides basic description of the project including information on partners, key researchers, project timeline and news. It also serves as a place for releasing publications and […]

  • Infiltration by Italian Organised Crime (Mafia, ’Ndrangheta and Camorra) of the Public Construction Industry

    Using the script approach, this paper analyses the different stages that characterise the infiltration of organised crime groups in the public construction industry. Three different Italian local contexts with a high presence of organised crime groups (Sicily, Calabria and Campania) are considered. Case studies based on data provided to the author by local judicial authorities […]

  • Not Only Banks: Criminological Models on the Infiltration of Public Contracts by Italian Organized Crime

    The paper aims at expanding knowledge on the presence of organized criminal groups in public contract procurement in the south of Italy. It seeks to highlight how the capabilities of law enforcement agencies could be enhanced by means of criminological models. The paper sets out a criminological model with which to assess the general and […]

  • La geografia criminale degli appalti: le infiltrazioni della criminalità organizzata negli appalti pubblici nel Sud Italia

    This book presents the first study ever made so far on the risk of infiltration of organized crime in public procurement in Southern Italy. Despite numerous alarms, the problem of infiltration in the procurement was for many years neglected in research. On the contrary, the mafias’ interest on procurement grew, aiming at profig and maintenance […]

  • Measuring transparency in public spending: Case of Czech public e-procurement information system

    The objective of this paper is to analyze the potential of e-Government tools to enable the general public to oversee spending of public institutions. The paper illustrates the “watchdog” potential of reducing corruption by means of providing information to the public on the example of the Czech Public e-Procurement Information System

  • Exponential and power laws in public procurement markets

    Abstract: We analyse for the first time a unique public procurement database, which includes information about a number of bidders for a contract, a final price, an identification of a winner and an identification of a contracting authority for each of more than 40000 public procurements in the Czech Republic between 2006 and 2011, focusing […]

  • Bearer shares in paper form and public procurement

    Abstract: This article examines for the first time the relationship between transparency of ownership structure and (i) profits of firms winning public procurement contracts and (ii) competition for the contracts and savings of the public authority.

  • Public procurement of homogeneous goods: The Czech Republic case study

    The goal of this paper is to show how institutional and procedural characteristics affect the final price of the public procurement. In order to get comparable prices, only public procurement of homogeneous goods is analysed.