Public procurement in municipalities
| Author: | Bc. Martin Pospíšil |
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| Year: | 2012 - winter |
| Leaders: | doc. Petr Janský Ph.D. |
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| Work type: | Bachelors |
| Language: | Czech |
| Pages: | 70 |
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| Abstract: | This thesis deals with the public procurement and the influence of various economic and political aspects on the achieved efficiency of their competitive contracting in municipalities. The theoretical part of the thesis provides an overview of the classic arguments justifying the existence of public procurement and use of competitive contracting for the provision of public services, nevertheless, it also points to certain drawbacks associated with it. Furthermore, the author attempts to describe the possible link between the concentration of political power in the bodies of municipalities and the effectiveness of competition mechanism in public procurement, which is an issue that is still uncharted in the literature. At the end the main aspects of the legislation on public procurement in the Czech Republic are mentioned. The aim of the empirical part of the thesis was to test hypotheses arising from the theoretical part employing econometric methods on a sample of public contracts awarded in the capital and 23 statutory towns in the Czech Republic during the electoral period 2006-2010. In order to test the hypotheses, linear models were developed, to which the method of ordinary least squares was applied, and some robust methods, due to the specific nature of the data. Regarding economic aspects, analysis results were consistent with the findings of previous studies. Some models have shown a possible connection between the efficiency of public contracting and political environment. |
| Downloadable: | Bachelor Thesis of Pospíšil |
