Political Contributions and Public Procurement: Evidence from Lithuania

Audinga Beltrunaite
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No 100, Working Papers from "Carlo F. Dondena" Centre for Research on Social Dynamics (DONDENA), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

Abstract: This paper studies whether firms trade political contributions for public procurement contracts. Combining data on Lithuanian government tenders, corporate donors and firm characteristics, I examine how a ban on corporate contributions affects the awarding of procurement contracts to companies that donated in the past. Consistent with political favoritism, donors' probability of winning falls by five percentage points as compared to that of non-donor firms after the ban. Evidence on bidding and victory margins suggests that corporate donors might receive information on competing bids. I assess that tax payers save almost one percent of GDP thanks to the reform.

Keywords: political contributions; public procurement; contributing firms; rent seeking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 55 pages
Date: 2017-02
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Journal Article: Political Contributions and Public Procurement: Evidence from Lithuania (2020)
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