The Penal System as Incentive to Criminality in Public Procurement: An Approach from the Economic Analysis of the Law Applied to Implicit Markets

This article argues that the penal and penitentiary system contains a set of incentives and disincentives that could be stimulating corruption in public procurement, along with a set of legal and material alternatives that make the sanction more flexible. Using the "contracting cartel" as a case study, and applying the inputs proposed by the economic analysis of the law applied to implicit markets, a conditional matrix will be constructed that could explain why the public procurement market is commonplace and conducive to the expansion and continuity of corruption and illegal appropriation of public resources.