HSE Seminar on Political Economy: Elena Podkolzina (NRU HSE) about corruption perception and competition in public procurement

What is the most efficient way to organize procurement? On the one hand, outsourcing procurement procedure to authorized agencies, which operate in the competitive environment, must lead to a decrease in costs. On the other hand, inasmuch as they belong to public sector, using such organizations do not solve such problems as corruption in sphere of procurement. On the presentation of an article «Corruption perception and competition in public procurement: empirical evidence from Russian regions» the professor of HSE Elena Podkolzina told wether it is better for a procurer to organize procurement himself or delegate this procedure to authorized agencies.

joint seminar of Higher School of Economics on political economy, International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (ICSID) and NES Center for the Study of Diversity and Social Interaction