Data source: Fazekas and Kocsis
Measuring high-level corruption is subject to extensive scholarly and policy interest, which has achieved moderate progress in the last decade. This dataset presents four objective proxy measures of high-level corruption in public procurement: single bidding in competitive markets, the share of contracts with no published call for tender'' red flag, the share of contracts withnon-open procedure'' red flag, and share of contracts with ``tax haven'' red flag.
Using official government data on 4 million contracts in thirty-two European countries from 2011 to 2021, the authors directly operationalize a common definition of corruption: unjustified restriction of access to public contracts to favour a selected bidder.
Corruption indicators are calculated at the contract level, but produce aggregate indices consistent with well-established country-level indicators, and are also validated by micro-level tests.
When using this dataset, please cite as:
(Fazekas & Kocsis,
2020)
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cri_contr
Number of successfully awarded contracts within tenders published on TED above 130k EUR threshold.
cri_cvalue
Sum of the final value of successfully awarded tenders published on TED above 130k EUR threshold.
cri_foreign
Total number of contracts won by a supplier that is registered at a foreign address.
cri_nocall
Share of contracts with 'no published call for tender' red flag. A contract is considered to have 'no call for tender' red flag if two conditions are met: i) The sum of prior information notices and c ...
cri_nonopen
Share of contracts with 'non-open procedure' red flag. Whether a procedure is considered non-open depends on procedure type as well as specific country regulation. Please refer to the 'Non-open proced ...
cri_singleb
Share of contracts with only one bid in total.
cri_taxhav
Share of contracts with 'tax haven' red flag. A contract has a 'tax haven' red flag in case two conditions are met: i) buyer and supplier are from different countries and ii) according to Financial Se ...