CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Arsenev, Aleksandr |
|---|---|
| Title | Single Bidding in Defense Procurement: Corrupt Behavior of Defense Contractors |
| Summary | Caveats in national security might have exorbitant future costs, and may signal that there is something wrong with the state or its government. This paper addresses the issue of corruption within defense procurement by analyzing the behavior of defense contractors. We use the Defence Companies Index by Transparency International and 2012-2022 tender data of the European Union to look at whether the DCI listing impacts the rate of single bidding that a company commits. Surprisingly, in four modifications of binomial logit models with relevant controls and matching, we find that non-DCI companies have almost two times less odds to submit a single bid. This finding might run contrary to the automatic assumption that contractors in a spotlight of a large anti-corruption study would commit fewer potentially corrupt practices. We discuss the possible reasons for the relationship between DCI listing and single bidding in the dedicated final sections. |
| Supervisor | Fazekas, Mihaly |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/arsenev_aleksandr.pdf |
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