Documents & Reports
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Procuring Low Growth : The Impact of Political Favoritism on Public Procurement and Firm Performance in Bulgaria (English)
This paper assesses the impact of favoritism in public procurement on private sector productivity growth. To this end, it combines three novel microeconomic data sets: administrative data on firms, including...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS11085 Document Date: March 13, 2025 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Fazekas,Mihaly,Poltoratskaya,Viktoriia,Marc Tobias Schiffbauer,Tóth,Bence
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Measuring the Risk of Corruption and Its Price Impact in North Macedonia 2011–2022 (English)
Public procurement in North Macedonia amounted to 16 percent of total government expenditure in 2018, or 5 percent of gross domestic product. The country’s public procurement is also vulnerable to corruption...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS11007 Document Date: December 19, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Fazekas,Mihaly,Abdou,Aly,Ibrahimi,Klea,Tóth,Bence,Veljanov,Zdravko
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Green Is Less Greedy : Competition, Corruption, and Productivity in Green Public Procurement in Bulgaria (English)
Although green public procurement has been established as a desirable policy goal across the globe, especially in the European Union, its scope and impacts remain severely understudied. This paper provides...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10987 Document Date: November 25, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Poltoratskaia,Viktoriia,Fazekas,Mihaly,Quintero,Maria Fernanda,Marc Tobias Schiffbauer
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Corruption Risks and State Capture in Bulgarian Public Procurement (English)
This paper sets out to measure and analyze corruption risks, patterns of favoritism, and state capture in public procurement in Bulgaria. It draws on two main types of data: large-scale administrative...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10444 Document Date: May 16, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Fazekas,Mihaly,Poltoratskaia,Viktoriia,Tóth,Bence
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България Икономически Меморандум за Страната : Път към Високи Доходи (Bulgarian)
Bulgaria has followed sound macroeconomic policy in recent years and has weathered the Covid-19 economic crisis relatively well. The country embarked on a thorough transformation to a functioning market...
Document Type: Country Economic Memorandum Report No.: 179438 Document Date: February 21, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Nikolova,Desislava Enikova,Schiffbauer,Marc Tobias,Fazekas,Mihaly,Drozd,Maciej Adam,Pennings,Steven Michael,Vaughan,Kristina Noelle,Kilinc,Umut
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Bulgaria Country Economic Memorandum : A Path to High Income (English)
Bulgaria has followed sound macroeconomic policy in recent years and has weathered the Covid-19 economic crisis relatively well. The country embarked on a thorough transformation to a functioning market...
Document Type: Country Economic Memorandum Report No.: 179438 Document Date: December 1, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Nikolova,Desislava Enikova,Schiffbauer,Marc Tobias,Fazekas,Mihaly,Drozd,Maciej Adam,Pennings,Steven Michael,Vaughan,Kristina Noelle,Kilinc,Umut
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Auction Length and Prices : Evidence from Random Auction Closing in Brazil (English)
Electronic reverse auctions are the most used competitive method for procurement of goods and non-consulting services by the Federal Government of Brazil. These auctions are closed randomly, which perfectly...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS8828 Document Date: April 22, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Oliveira,Alexandre Borges De,Fabregas Masllovet,Abdoulaye,Fazekas,Mihaly