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Incentives For Repeated Contracts In Public Sector: Empirical Study Of Gasoline Procurement In Russia
Высшая школа экономики
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2015.
No. WP BRP 24/PA/2015.
This paper analyzes the phenomenon of repeated procurements made by public sector customers from the same supplier. The previous surveys of “relational contracts” gave different explanations for the possible implications of such repeated procurements, but those surveys dealt mostly with goods and services, with quality difficult to verify at the point of delivery. This work studies the impact of repeated procurements on the price of a simple homogeneous product. We presume that the downward price shift of such a product during repeated procurements can be the consequence of transaction costs reduction in the framework of the bona fide behavior of a customer and supplier. An upward shift in the prices as compared to the market average can, on the contrary, be interpreted as an indirect indication of corrupt collusion between them. Using a huge dataset on procurements of AI-92 gasoline in Russia in 2011, we show that the price difference between repeated and one-time contracts can be explained by the type of procurement procedures providing different opportunities for corrupt behavior. Less transparent procedures (single-sourcing and requests for quotations) are more suitable for corrupt collusion. This might explain why the prices of repeat contracts in this case were higher. On the contrary, the prices of repeat contracts were lower compared to one-time procurement in the case of more transparent e-auctions
Tkachenko A., Yakovlev A. A., Kuznetsova A., Economic Systems 2017 Vol. 41 No. 1 P. 52-67
We show how a price analysis of stable relations between customer and supplier in the public procurement of homogeneous goods can help differentiate opportunistic from honest behaviour among economic agents. We consider two types of stable relations: repeated procurements and connections based on the state ownership of suppliers. On the basis of a large dataset ...
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Yakovlev A. A., Oleg Vyglovsky, Demidova O. et al., International Journal of Procurement Management 2016 Vol. 9 No. 3 P. 272-289
Contrary to previous studies of relational contracting this paper analyzes the impact of repeated procurements on the price of a simple homogeneous product. Using a large dataset on procurements of AI-92 gasoline in Russia in 2011, we show that price difference between repeated and one-time contracts can be explained by the type of procurement procedures. ...
Added: December 3, 2015
Balsevich A. A., Podkolzina E., / Высшая школа экономики. Series WP BRP "Economics/EC". 2014. No. WP BRP 76/EC/2014.
Corruption is widely spread across the world and is believed to affect economic growth negatively. It is most persistent in the developing countries. Russian economy is not an exception. Significant losses are also reported in public procurement in Russia due to corruption. Unfortunately, to measure corruption is very challenging. In this paper, using the data ...
Added: November 27, 2014
Ostrovnaya M., Elena Podkolzina, Journal of Competition Law & Economics 2015 Vol. 11 No. 2 P. 331-352
Why do people violate the law? The Hobbesian outlook would be that people violate the law in the absence of appropriate punishment. John Stuart Mill would have attributed the violation to the lack of incentives to behave legally. In this paper, we combine these two factors to examine the effect of antitrust regulation on price ...
Added: October 21, 2014
Yakovlev A. A., Demidova O., Экономический журнал Высшей школы экономики 2010 Т. 14 № 2 С. 202-226
Corruption in government procurements remains to be one of grave problems in transition economies. A reaction to this problem in Russia came in 2005-2006 in form of a radical reform of government procurements. This paper analyses the main parameters of firms participating in government procurements before and after changes in regulation. Our analysis is based ...
Added: October 13, 2012
Podkolzina E., 86974107, / Высшая школа экономики. Series PA "Public Administration". 2011. No. 01.
The main goal of public procurement reform in Russia, initiated in 2005, was to prevent corrupt deals between suppliers and procurers. That is why the public procurement law favors formal mechanisms to govern most of the stages of procurement: the procurer is not allowed to take into account the reputation of the supplier when he ...
Added: August 27, 2012
Ostrovnaya M., Podkolzina E., Экономический журнал Высшей школы экономики 2014 Т. 18 № 4 С. 586-619
Since the 2000s electronic auctions have been actively used in public and private procurement in many countries. They are often organized by intermediaries – specialized e-platforms, which seem to raise price competition between companies through increased transparency and lower participation costs. Meanwhile, it is not clear yet to what consequences e-auctions lead, if an e-platform ...
Added: October 21, 2014
Yakovlev A. A., Tkachenko A., Rodionova Y., Вопросы экономики 2018 № 10 С. 90-105
The experience of the last decade has demonstrated that the state policy on the extension of competitive procedures in public procurement has been challenged by the attempts of customers and suppliers to restrict competition. The mass survey of customers and suppliers carried out by the Institute for Industrial and Market Studies in 2017 showed that ...
Added: October 10, 2018
Balsevich A. A., Pivovarova S. G., Podkolzina E., / Высшая школа экономики. Series EC "Economics". 2011. No. 01.
Transparency is often prescribed as a cure for almost all the diseases of modern society, but it is not quite clear why and how it might solve certain problems. In the paper we explore how transparency of the public procurement system in Russian regions is correlated with competition, corruption, and control, key factors that influence ...
Added: August 28, 2012
Yakovlev A. A., Demidova O., International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies 2012 Vol. 5 No. 2 P. 140-157
This paper considers the consequences of public procurement reform in Russia in 2005-2006. We show that before the reform, manufacturing firms with government stakes, old firms and larger firms had advantages in access to government orders. In 2009 large firms retain their advantages in access to government orders. Estimated scales of ‘kickback’ in 2009 were ...
Added: September 11, 2012
Yakovlev A. A., Башина А. С., Demidova O., Экономический журнал Высшей школы экономики 2013 Т. 17 № 4 С. 617-645
In 2000s Russian government considered e-auction as the best way to procure goods for public needs. In this paper we confirm this proposition using empirical dataset on 3 thousands contracts for procurement of sugar sand in Russia in 2011. Our data shows that unit prices are higher in the case of long-term contracts. This result ...
Added: October 24, 2013
Kosals L., Maksimova A., Economic sociology - The European electronic newsletter 2012 Vol. 13 No. 2 P. 21-28
In the text the authors analyze blurred boundaries between the legal and illegal markets taking an example of the shadow economic activities of police officers in Russia. Being a tool for maintaining law and order, in many transformation countries the police has turned into a powerful vehicle of institutional subversion. The authors summarize publications investigating ...
Added: July 27, 2012
Tkachenko A., Yakovlev A. A., Demidova O. et al., Российский журнал менеджмента 2014 Т. 12 № 4 С. 29-54
This paper analyses the impact of two reforms dealt with transparency improvement and adoption of more flexible regulation on effectiveness of procurement of a large state university (Higher School of Economics) in the period from 2008 to 2012. We evaluate the impact of two significant changes in the public procurement regulation: transfer to electronic auctions ...
Added: February 4, 2015
Yakovlev A. A., Tkachenko A., Rodionova Y., Госзаказ: управление, размещение, обеспечение 2018 № 53 С. 18-25
Начиная с 1990-х годов во всем мире идет активное реформирование системы госзакупок, направленное на обеспечение конкуренции между участниками, открытости и прозрачности при осуществлении государственных закупок. Однако внедрение конкурентных процедур размещения госзаказа (сопровождаемое аргументами об их более высокой эффективности) наталкивается на стремление самих участников закупок к ограничению конкуренции — в том числе в формате заведомого выбора ...
Added: October 12, 2018
Kuznetsova I. V., Госзаказ: управление, размещение, обеспечение 2012 № 29 С. 2-2
Статья анонсирует второе определяющее чтение закона о ФКС. Внесено более 300 поправок , значительно меняющих облик законопроекта. За последние месяцы происходят интереснейшие институциональные изменения в системе закупок. Создаются подразделения по государственным закупкам в системе Счетной палаты РФ, участие в процессе Торгово-промышленной палаты России дает надежду на объединение всех бизнес-сообществ нашей страны и выработать консолидированную позицию ...
Added: November 22, 2012
Krylova D., Maksimenko A., Государственное управление. Электронный вестник 2021 № 84 С. 241-255
In this article, the authors, using the example of several foreign publications, analyze the trends in the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in discernment of corruption. Based on the international review, the authors make the conclusion that the mechanisms for detecting corruption, based on the use of artificial intelligence, described in foreign sources, ...
Added: February 25, 2021
Barsukova S., Denisova-Schmidt E., Ledeneva A., Osteuropa 2018 Vol. 68 No. 8-9 P. 25-40
The fight against corruption enjoys worldwide attention. But how do you measure corruption? Many social scientists rely on quantitative methods. But these have a weakness. They are blind to the particular social and local context in which people use informal practices. Also, not every informal action is corruption. In order to be able to precisely ...
Added: December 26, 2018
Arzamasov Y., Представительная власть - XXI век: законодательство, комментарии, проблемы 2009 № 2-3 С. 4-6
В любом государстве, как политической организации общества, главным является вопрос о власти, то есть в чьих руках она находится, какими методами, то есть способами она осуществляется? В чьих интересах? Каковы результаты этой деятельности? Однако наряду с таким цивилизованным инструментом в руках власти как право, с помощью которого закрепляются нормы-дефиниции и принципы права (общеправовые, межотраслевые и ...
Added: February 24, 2013
Nisnevich Y. A., Россия и современный мир 2012 № 1 С. 52-64
Procedural destination of political and public components of polyarchic democracy lies in the provision of political, informational and. On the whole, social competition. Only high quality functioning of democratic norms can ensure permanent political and civil control over public administration which is a key condition of effective counteracting and suppressing corruption. ...
Added: May 30, 2012
Петухов Р. В., Власть 2019 № 6 С. 77-86
The author of the article answers the question why it is widely views that local authorities are the most corrupt level of public power. In his opinion, the reason for this is the negative attitude towards local authorities, characterized by a critically low level of trust.
The peculiarity of the relationship between ordinary people and local ...
Added: November 30, 2020
Fattakhov T., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2015 № 128 С. 66-95
Abstract. Over more than ten years, Russia has been at the top of the list of the OECD countries by traffic-related death rate per 1000 residents. The death rate in Russia is five- to six-fold greater than in most of the developed countries, given that the number of cars per 1000 residents is much lower. ...
Added: September 18, 2015
Kim E. U., Трунцевский Ю. В., Молчанова М. А., Сравнительная политика 2018 Т. 9 № 3 С. 146-153
Korea is a country with strict anticorruption legislation. However, this cannot the only guarantee for the eradication of various types of corruption. Analyzing retrospectively the reasons for its functioning and its combating in the Republic of Korea, there is a traditional system of social organization that in many ways provokes corruption. In different periods the ...
Added: April 12, 2021
Davison B., Komarnitskaya A.N., Ershova N. V., Journal of Management Research (США) 2014 Vol. 6 No. 4 P. 21-49
This paper provides a contribution to the knowledge of contract administration by examining the role of personal and organization characteristics in project success. The research described in this paper examines the effects that personal and organizational characteristics of procurement professionals have on project success, specifically on the frequency and severity of problems experienced for different ...
Added: October 20, 2014
Panchenko P. N., Вопросы правоведения 2012 № 3(15) С. 91-117
В статье анализируются особенности нынешней коррупции в России, устанавливаются ее причины, намечаются первоочередные меры ее преодоления. Вносятся предложения о том, как отделить бизнес от власти, сделать права человека реальными, а деятельность по преодолению коррупции – публичной, системной, научно обоснованной, эффективной. Определяются направления реформирования общего и отраслевого антикоррупционного законодательства и практики его реализации. Даются рекомендации относительно ...
Added: January 17, 2013