Armenia's exports to Russia are up a stunning 430% from before Russia invaded Ukraine (black). You don't have to rack your brain too hard to know what's going on. This is exports to Armenia from the EU (blue) and China (red) getting rerouted to Russia. The EU must stop this...

🚀 Exciting news! 🎉 New article out by Isabela Villamil, János Kertész & Mihály Fazekas on 'Collusion risk in corporate networks' in Scientific Reports.📊 #Research #Procurement #CollusionDetection

Read the article here: bit.ly/3UEPvW0

Corruption is a threat to development, affecting the poor and most vulnerable. Yet, government agencies struggle to identify corruption in public spending. The latest Governance Risk Assessment System report outlines its implementation.

Read the report: wrld.bg/8rVb50Q8Wji

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Excellent summary of the impact of new US sanctions on #ArcticLNG2 in Euromaidan Press.

The project now needs alternative investors, carriers, and equipment.

euromaidanpress.com/2024/01/10/rus…

📈The Government Analytics Handbook by the
World Bank is out! Head to Chapter 12: Government Analytics Using Procurement Data co-authored by
Mihály Fazekas to find out more👉bitly.ws/ZyMp

State-owned enterprises ( #SOEs ) have increasingly become more important, with assets totaling $45 trillion, half of global #GDP . Therefore, should procurement laws, which regulate 12% of GDP, be applied to SOE procurement?

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Corruption and economic crime use similar methods to move and launder dirty money, and hurt societies by taking away financial resources. They threaten countries' stability and harm the rule of law and democracy.

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Mihály Fazekas The results show that the more single-bidder contracts a firm has won, the more its sales margins increase. We also find that restricted competition tends to favour local firms in geographical proximity to the authority that issued the tender.

Mihály Fazekas Combining contract-level procurement data and company performance data, we introduced a novel corruption risk measure called single bidder winner ratio to analyze whether firms that win a higher share of single bidder contracts are more profitable than other firms.

New paper out in Public Choice with Mihály Fazekas: 'Firm performance, imperfect competition, and corruption risks in procurement: evidence from Swedish municipalities'.

Open Access - rdcu.be/dkt5u

Link to the call: universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/2023…

Official development assistance as percent of donors' national wealth reached 0.36% in 2022 – its highest ratio in 40 years.

However, only five OECD donors met the UN target of 0.7%, according to preliminary #ODA figures.

🔍 your country: oe.cd/oda

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Learn more about the #GI_ACE work by Prof Liz David-Barrett and Mihály Fazekas on curbing corruption in #procurement and identifying red flags:

➡️ ace.globalintegrity.org/projects/procu…

⏩ ace.globalintegrity.org/projects/using…

Now published (with open access) my article on the role of institutions in the generation of trust
annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114…

🇱🇹 Lithuania will host the International Anti-Corruption Conference 2024, the world’s largest independent global forum in the fight against corruption. The #IACC2024 will take place from 18 to 21 June 2024 in Vilnius. Save the date!

More info: iaccseries.org/iacc-2024/

Rising corporate profits were the largest contributor to Europe’s inflation over the past two years as companies increased prices by more than the spiking costs of imported energy. bit.ly/441jfya