Research
selected articles
The Cost of Favoritism in Public Procurement (with Bruno Baranek). Journal of Law and Economics, 67(2), p. 445–477 (2024).
Political donations, public procurement and government efficiency (with Benny Geys and Kristof De Witte). World Development, 148 (2021).
Political Donations and the Allocation of Public Procurement Contracts (with Benny Geys). European Economic Review, 111 (2019), p. 443-458.
[working paper] [voxcolumn] [online appendix] [dataset]
other articles
European funds and green public procurement (with Ruben Nicolas and Fredo Schotanus). Ecological Economics, 227 (2025).
Identifying Politically Connected Firms: A Machine Learning Approach (with Deni Mazrekaj and Fritz Schiltz). Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 86(1), p. 137-155 (2024).
Discretion and Political Favoritism: Evidence from Two Reforms in Public Procurement(with Marly Celis Galvez and Fredo Schotanus). Southern Economic Journal (2024).
How Politics Influence Public Good Provision (with Kristof De Witte). Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 81 (2022).
working papers
01/2025 The One and Only: Single Bidding in Public Procurement. Submitted.
01/2025 (with Lukas Linek, Michael Skvrnak, and Michal Michal Soltes). Czech Political Candidate and Donation Datasets. Conditionally accepted in Scientific Data.
12/2024 (with Kris De Jaegher and Michal Soltes) Renegotiation in Public Procurement. Resubmitted to Journal of Public Economics.
10/2024 (with Tijmen Tuinsma, Kristof De Witte, Petr Jansky, and Miroslav Palansky) The Effect of Private Country-by-Country Reporting on Tax Avoidance: a Regression Discontinuity Approach. R&R in International Tax and Public Finance.
07/2024 (with Bruno Baranek and Leon Musolff) Detection of Collusive Networks in E-procurement. R&R in AEJ:Applied Economics.
work in progress
07/2024 (with Alexandros Cavgias, Dimas Fazio, and Luis Meloni). On the Costs and Benefits of Set Aside Auctions for Small Businesses.
07/2024 (with Adriano De Leverano and Leonardo Giuffrida). When Transparency Backfires: Entry Coordination in Electronic Auctions.
07/2024 with Marly Celis, Fredo Schotanus, and Michal Soltes) Public Procurer’s Competence.
07/2024 (with Deni Mazrekaj and Michal Soltes) Economic and Social Consequences of Child Loss.
07/2024 (with Tijmen Tuinsma and Kristof De Witte). Never Waste a Good Crisis: What Firms Recorded Higher Excess Profits During the COVID-19 Pandemic?
07/2024 (with Emilie Wojcieszynski). The Power of the Pen: Influences of Lobbying on the Legislative Procedure in Europe.
07/2024 (with Olga Chiappinelli, Ambrogio Dalo’ and Leonardo Giuffrida) The greener, the better? Evidence from government contractors.
books/chapters
Baranek, B. V. Titl. (2021). Political connections in public procurement. In Ed. Bandiera, O., Bosio, E. and G. Spagnolo, Procurement in Focus: Rules, Discretion, and Emergencies (pp. 43-52). CEPR PRESS. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/procurement-focus-rules-discretion-and-emergencies
Titl, V. (2020). The role of political connections and institutions in public procurement: evidence from Czech administrative data. KU Leuven Doctoral Thesis.
The Analysis of Political Campaign Donations [in Czech] (with Skuhrovec J. and M. Palanský) In Financování politického života. Editors: Šimíček J. p. 155-174. Muni Press, Brno, Czech Republic 2015, ISBN 9788021079946.
Financing Quality Education for All: The Funding Methods of Compulsory and Special Needs Education (with Kristof De Witte, Mike Smet and Oliver Holz). Universitaire Pers Leuven 2019. ISBN 9789462701915.