Fazekas, Mihály; Veljanov, Zdravko & Abdou, Aly (2026) Public Procurement’s Long COVID: Emergency Responses and Shifting Corruption Risks in Europe. Regulation and Governance.
The COVID-19 pandemic caused an unprecedented surge in spending to combat the pandemic with widespread accusations of corruption. The magnitude, drivers, and trajectory of corruption across the pandemic response remain underexplored. This paper approximates the impacts of the pandemic on public procurement corruption risks and the mechanisms underpinning their persistence and diffusion. Administrative data on all …