Auriol, Emmanuelle, Flochel, Thomas and Straub, Stéphane
(2016)
Public procurement and rent-seeking: the case of Paraguay.
World Development, vol. 77.
pp. 395-407.
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Abstract
A model of entrepreneurial choices in an economy with a corrupt public procurement sector is built, providing predictions along two main dimensions. First, corruption is more frequent in sectors where public institutions are large buyers. Second, firms favoured with corrupt contracts enjoy extra returns, so that procurement related activities attract the best entrepreneurs. A large scale microeconomic database, including all public procurement operations over a 4 year period in Paraguay, amounting annually to approximately 6% of the country’s GDP, is then used to corroborate these predictions.
Item Type: | Article |
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Language: | English |
Date: | January 2016 |
Refereed: | Yes |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Procurement, Corruption, Rent-seeking, Development |
JEL Classification: | D72 - Economic Models of Political Processes - Rent-Seeking, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior D73 - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption H57 - Procurement O5 - Economywide Country Studies |
Subjects: | B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE |
Divisions: | TSE-R (Toulouse) |
Site: | UT1 |
Date Deposited: | 02 Oct 2015 13:40 |
Last Modified: | 01 Jul 2021 07:41 |
OAI Identifier: | oai:tse-fr.eu:29635 |
URI: | https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/18478 |
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