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Analysis of Relationship between Indicators of the Public Procurement Market and the Level of Perceived Corruption in EU Member States
Analysis of Relationship between Indicators of the Public Procurement Market and the Level of Perceived Corruption in EU Member States

Author(s): Sara Rističová, Ján Pavel
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Ekonomický ústav SAV a Prognostický ústav SAV
Keywords: competitive effect; corruption; European Union; public procurement

Summary/Abstract: Post-communist states of the European Union traditionally score in various rankings of indicators that deal with the degree of (perceived) corruption signifi¬cantly worse than most of the old EU member states. One of factors that strongly influence the unfavourable rating in these areas is a situation on the public procurement market. The presented paper aims by use of quantitative analysis to determine the extent to which are the level of corruption and public sector efficiency linked to selected indicators dealing with the situation on the public procurement market. The paper deals with two main topics. Firstly we discuss the procurement market from the macro-perspective. Secondly we have prepared two econometric models, which are analysing the relationship between level of corruption/efficiency of the public sector and selected indicators of the situation on the public procurement market (e.g. average number of bids, intensity of the competitive effect). The results schow, that there is statistical significant relationship.

  • Issue Year: 63/2015
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 372-394
  • Page Count: 23