Publications – Mihaly Fazekas

With nearly 200 publications, spanning diverse disciplines such as political science, economics and data science, this page presents Mihály’s publications. More details and citation information can be found on the following academic platforms.

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Modelling Reform Strategies for Open Contracting in Low and Middle Income Countries.

Adam, Isabelle; Dávid Barrett, Elizabeth; and Fazekas, Mihály

Transparency International, London, UK. 2020
Beyond Leakages: Quantifying the Effects of Corruption on the Water and Sanitation Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Adam, Isabelle; Fazekas, Mihály; Regős, Nóra; and Tóth, Bence

Technical Note No IDB-TN-2055. Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC. 2020
Single bidding and non-competitive tendering procedures in EU Co-funded Projects.

Fazekas, Mihály

European Commission, Brussels. 2019
Analytics for Integrity. Data-Driven Approaches for Enhancing Corruption and Fraud Risk Assessments.

Fazekas, Mihály, Ugale, Gavin, and Zhao, Angelina

OECD, Paris. 2019
Handbook: Good governance practices and measures to prevent corruption in procurement process at municipal level in the Russian Federation.

Fazekas, Mihály and Maslova, Natalya

Council of Europe, Strasbourg. [in Russian]. 2019
Study on the scale, forms and manifestations of corruption in the procurement processes in the Russian Federation at municipal level.

Dávid-Barrett, Elizabeth, Fazekas, Mihály, Smirnov, Nikolay V., and Maslova, Natalya

Council of Europe, Strasbourg. [in Russian]. 2018
Are emerging technologies helping win the fight against corruption in developing countries?

Adam, Isabelle and Fazekas, Mihály

Pathways for Prosperity Commission Background Paper Series; no. 21. Oxford, United Kingdom. 2018
DIGIWHIST Recommendations for the Implementation of Open Public Procurement Data. An Implementer‘s Guide.

Mendes, Mara and Fazekas, Mihály

DIGIWHIST and Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland. 2017
Proxy indicators for the corrupt misuse of corporations.

Fazekas, Mihály and Tóth, Bence

U4 Brief. October 2017:6. U4 – Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway. 2017
Corruption risk assessment of the public procurement area in Kosovo.

Fazekas, Mihály and Szalai, Bálint

Council of Europe, Strasbourg. 2017
Assessing the potential for detecting collusion in Swedish public procurement.

Fazekas, Mihály and Tóth, Bence

Uppdragsforskningsrap. 2016:3, Swedish Competition Authority, Stockholm. 2016
A Skills beyond School Review of the Slovak Republic.

Fazekas, Mihály and Kurekova, Lucia Mytna

OECD, Paris. 2016
Public Integrity and Trust in Europe.

Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina, Ramin Dadašov, Mihály Fazekas et al

European Research Centre for Anti-Corruption and State-Building (ERCAS), Hertie School of Governance, Berlin. 2015
The Cost of One-Party Councils: Lack of Electoral Accountability and Public Procurement Corruption.

Fazekas, Mihály

Electoral Reform Society, London. 2015
Corruption Risks in UK Public Procurement and New Anti-Corruption Tools.

Fazekas, Mihály, and Dávid-Barrett, Elizabeth

GTI-R/2015:01, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. 2015
How to Construct a Public Procurement Database from Administrative Records?

Czibik, Ágnes; Fazekas, Mihály; Tóth, Bence

GTI-R/2015:02, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. 2015
Towards a comprehensive mapping of information on public procurement tendering and its actors across Europe.

Cingolani, Luciana; Fazekas, Mihály; Kukutschka, Roberto Martínez B.; Tóth, Bence

DIGIWHIST, University of Cambridge. 2015
New ways to measure institutionalised grand corruption in public procurement.

Fazekas, Mihály and Tóth, István János

U4 Brief. October 2014:9. U4 – Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway. 2014
Skills Beyond School: Synthesis Report, OECD Reviews of Vocational Education and Training.

Field, Simon, Alvarez-Galvan, Jose-Luis, Fazekas, Mihály, Kis, Viktória, Kuczera, Małgorzata and Musset, Pauline

OECD, Paris. 2014
A Skills beyond School Review of the Netherlands.

Fazekas, Mihály and Litjens, Ineke

OECD, Paris. 2014
A Skills beyond School Review of Germany.

Fazekas, Mihály and Field, Simon

OECD, Paris. 2013
A Skills beyond School Review of Austria.

Musset, Pauline, Bloem, Simone, Fazekas, Mihály, and Field, Simon

OECD, Paris. 2013
A Skills beyond School Review of Switzerland.

Fazekas, Mihály and Field, Simon

OECD, Paris. 2013
Study for an impact assessment on a proposal for a new legal framework on the confiscation and recovery of criminal assets (Prepared for the European Commission Directorate General Home Affairs).

Forsaith, James, Irving, Barrie, Nanopoulos, Eva, and Fazekas, Mihály

RAND Europe, Cambridge. 2012
Improving Public Procurement Outcomes: Review of Tools and the State of the Evidence Base.

Adam, Isabelle; Blum, Jürgen Rene; & Fazekas, Mihály

GTI-WP/2025:00, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. 2025
Procuring low growth: The impact of political favoritism on public procurement and firm performance in Bulgaria.

Fazekas, Mihály; Poltoratskaya, Viktoriia; Schiffbauer, Marc; & Tóth, Bence

Policy Research Working Paper: WPS11085, Washington, D.C.: World Bank. 2025
Measuring the Risk of Corruption and Its Price Impact in North Macedonia 2011–2022.

Fazekas, Mihály; Abdou, Aly; Ibrahimi, Klea; Tóth, Bence; & Veljanov, Zdravko

Policy Research Working Paper: WPS11007, Washington, D.C.: World Bank. 2024
Green Is Less Greedy: Competition, Corruption, and Productivity in Green Public Procurement in Bulgaria.

Poltoratskaya, Viktoriia; Fazekas, Mihály; Quintero, Maria Fernanda; & Schiffbauer, Marc Tobias

Policy Research Working Paper: WPS10987, Washington, D.C.: World Bank. 2024
The LEGDAT Dataset: A Global Dataset on Legislative Processes, Outputs and Outcomes.

Benoît, Cyril; Brenner, Dominik & Fazekas, Mihály

CEU Global Corruption Observatory-Project Report. 2024 October. 2024
Measuring Legislative Predictability: The Case of the Kingdom of Jordan and Implications for the MENA Region.

Fazekas, Mihály; Brenner, Dominik & Ladegaard, Peter Farup

Policy Research Working Paper: WPS 10864, Washington, D.C.: World Bank. 2024
Using beneficial ownership data for large-scale risk assessment in public procurement. The example of 6 European countries.

Arista, Irene Tello; Fazekas, Mihály & Volkotrub, Antonina

GTI-WP/2024:02, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. 2024
Hidden barriers to open competition: Using text mining to uncover corrupt restrictions to competition in public procurement.

Katona, Eszter & Fazekas, Mihály

GTI-WP/2024:01, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. 2024
Efficiency Gains from Anti-corruption in Pharmaceuticals Procurement: Analysis of 9 countries across 3 continents.

Veljanov, Zdravko & Fazekas, Mihály

GTI-WP/2023:04, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. 2023
Corruption risks in public procurement through the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.

Fazekas, Mihály, Hernandez Sanchez, Alfredo, Abdou, Aaly & Kofrán, Dániel

GTI-WP/2023:03, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. 2023
Public procurement cartels: A large-sample testing of screens using machine learning.

Fazekas, Mihály, Tóth, Bence & Wachs, Johannes

GTI-WP/2023:02, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. 2023
Corruption Risks and State Capture in Bulgarian Public Procurement.

Fazekas, Mihály; Poltoratskaya, Viktoriia; and Tóth, Bence

Policy Research Working Paper: WPS 10444 Washington, D.C.: World Bank. 2023
Introducing e-procurement in Bangladesh: The promise of efficiency and openness.

Blum, Jürgen; Datta, Arkopal; Fazekas, Mihály; Samaddar, Sushmita and Ishtiak Siddique

Policy Research Working Paper: WPS 10390, Washington, D.C.: World Bank. 2023
Advances in measuring corruption and agenda for the future.

Fazekas, Mihály and Ferrali, Romain

GTI-WP/2023:01, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. 2023
Assessing Vulnerabilities to Corruption in Public Procurement and Their Price Impact.

Abdou, Aly; Basdevant, Olivier; David-Barrett, Elizabeth, and Fazekas, Mihály

IMF Working Papers: WP/22/94. Washington, D.C.: IMF. 2022
Public procurement cartels: A systematic testing of old and new screens.

Adam, Isabelle, Fazekas, Mihály, Kazmina, Yuliia, Teremy, Zsombor, Tóth, Bence, Villamil, Isabela Rosario; & Wachs, Johannes

GTI-WP/2022:01, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. 2022
COVID-19 emergency public procurement in Romania: Corruption risks and market behavior.

Abdou, Aly; Czibik, Ágnes; Fazekas, Mihály; & Tóth, Bence

GTI-WP/2021:03, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. 2021
Global Public Procurement Open Competition Index.

Adam, Isabelle, Sanchez, Alfredo Hernandez; & Fazekas, Mihály

GTI-WP/2021:02, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. 2021
Open and sustainable procurement. Towards deepened collaboration between reformers.

Adam, Isabelle, Fazekas, Mihály & Zellmann, Conrad

GTI-WP/2021:01, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. 2021
Improving Public Procurement Outcomes: Review of Tools and the State of the Evidence Base.

Fazekas, Mihály; & Blum, Jürgen Rene

Policy Research Working Paper: WPS 9690, Washington, D.C.: World Bank. 2021
Lowering Prices of Pharmaceuticals, Medical Supplies, and Equipment. Insights from Big Data for Better Procurement Strategies in Latin America.

Fazekas, Mihály; De Oliveira, Alexandre; & Regős, Nóra

Policy Research Working Paper: WPS 9689, Washington, D.C.: World Bank. 2021
State Capture and Defence Procurement in the EU.

Czibik, Ágnes; Fazekas, Mihály; Hernandez Sanchez, Alfredo; & Wachs, Johannes

GTI-WP/2020:05, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. 2020
Water and Sanitation Sector Integrity Risk Index.

Fazekas, Mihály; Allakulov, Umrbek; Hernandez Sanchez, Alfredo; & Aje, Joshua

GTI-WP/2020:04, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. 2020
Legislative Effects of Regulatory Impact Assessment: A Comparative Event History Analysis of Modifications of Law in France, Italy, Hungary, and the UK.

Brenner, Dominik; & Fazekas, Mihály

GTI-WP/2020:03, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. 2020
Are emerging technologies helping win the fight against corruption? A review of the state of evidence.

Adam, Isaelle; & Fazekas, Mihály

GTI-WP 2020:02, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. 2020
Measuring the benefits of open contracting: Case studies on Mexico, Paraguay, and Slovakia.

Adam, Isabelle; Fazekas, Mihály; & Tóth, Bence

GTI-WP/2020:01, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. 2020
Elections and corruption: incentives to steal or incentives to invest?

Fazekas, Mihály & Hellmann, Olli

GTI-WP/2019:02, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. 2019
Agency Design, Favoritism and Procurement in the United States.

Dahlström, Carl; Fazekas, Mihály; & Lewis, David E

QoG Working Paper Series 2019:4, Quality of Government Institute, University of Gothenburg. 2019
Strategic Sourcing 20: Improving Fiscal Efficiency Using Big Data.

De Oliveira, Alexandre; Fabregas, Abdoulaye; & Fazekas, Mihaly

Conference paper: ”Public Procurement: Global Revolution IX” at the University of Nottingham, June 2019. 2019
Auction Length and Prices: Evidence from Random Auction Closing in Brazil.

De Oliveira, Alexandre; Fabregas, Abdoulaye; & Fazekas, Mihaly

Policy Research Working Paper; no. WPS 8828. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group. 2019
Anti-corruption interventions in development aid: Is corruption reduced or merely displaced?

Dávid-Barrett, Elizabeth & Fazekas, Mihály

GTI-WP/2018:02, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. 2018
Institutional quality, campaign contributions, and favouritism in US federal government contracting.

Fazekas, Mihály, Ferrali, Romain, & Wachs, Johannes

GTI-WP/2018:01, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. 2018
Assessing the Quality of Government at the Regional Level Using Public Procurement Data.

Fazekas, Mihály

WP 12/2017, Brussels: European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional Policy. 2017
Procurement and competition in Swedish municipalities.

Broms, Rasmus, Dahlström, Carl, & Fazekas, Mihály

QoG Working Paper Series 2017:5, Quality of Government Institute, University of Gothenburg. 2017
The effectiveness of the European Union in safeguarding competition in public procurement markets.

Fazekas, Mihály, & Tóth, Bence

GTI-WP/2017:04, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. 2017
Controlling Corruption in Development Aid: New Evidence from Contract-Level Data.

Dávid-Barrett, Elizabeth, Fazekas, Mihály, Hellmann, Olli, Márk, Lili, & McCorley, Ciara

SCSC Working Paper No. 1. Sussex Centre for the Study of Corruption, University of Sussex. 2017
Corruption, government turnover, and public contracting market structure – Insights using network analysis and objective corruption proxies.

Fazekas, Mihály, Skuhrovec, Jiri, & Wachs, Johannes

GTI-WP/2017:02, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. 2017
Compliance and strategic contract manipulation around single market regulatory thresholds – the case of Poland.

Tóth, Bence, & Fazekas, Mihály,

GTI-WP/2017:01, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. 2017
A comprehensive review of objective corruption proxies in public procurement: risky actors, transactions, and vehicles of rent extraction.

Fazekas, Mihály, Cingolani, Luciana, & Tóth, Bence

GTI-WP/2016:03, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. 2016
Corrupt Contracting: Partisan Favouritism in Public Procurement.

Dávid-Barrett, Elizabeth & Fazekas, Mihály

ERCAS Working Paper No. 49, Berlin: Hertie School of Governance. 2016
Universalistic Rules – Particularistic Implementation: The EU’s Single Market for Government Purchases.

Fazekas, Mihály & Skuhrovec, Jiri

Proceedings of the 7th International Public Procurement Conference, Bali, Indonesia. 2016
Uncovering High-Level Corruption: Cross-National Corruption Proxies Using Government Contracting Data.

Fazekas, Mihály and Kocsis, Gábor

GTI-WP/2015:02, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. 2015
Toolkit for detecting collusive bidding in public procurement. With examples from Hungary.

Tóth, Bence, Fazekas, Mihály, Czibik, Ágnes, and Tóth, István János

GTI-WP/2014:02, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. 2014
The One and the Many: Elaborating a taxonomy of Impact Assessment practices in Europe.

Lianos, Ioannis and Fazekas, Mihály

CLES Research Paper Series, 1/2014. Centre for Law, Economics and Society. London: UCL. 2014
Corruption manual for beginners: ‘Corruption techniques’ in public procurement with examples from Hungary.

Fazekas, Mihály, Tóth, István János, and King, Peter Lawrence

GTI-WP/2013:01, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. 2013
Exploring the complex interaction between governance and knowledge. Synthesis of the literature.

Fazekas, Mihály, and Burns, Tracey

OECD Education Working Papers, No. 67, OECD Publishing. 2012
School funding formulas – literature review.

Fazekas, Mihály

OECD Education Working Papers, No. 74, OECD, Paris. 2012
International Policy Learning and Learning Capacity. The Case of Hungarian Vocational Education and Training.

Fazekas, Mihály

Berlin: Hertie School of Governance, WP. 49. 2010