&D investment, and derive predictions on the effects of trust and competition on suppliers' investment and buyers' procurement … - but also with more competitive procurement: trust and rents from reduced supplier competition in the procurement process …

question in the context of the US federal procurement of services and works, by combining contract-level data on procurement …

Centralization of public procurement can lower prices for the government's direct purchase of goods and services. This … paper focuses on indirect savings. Public administrations that do not procure directly through a central procurement agency …

buyers' offers become more generous. Buyers tend to prefer penalties, which may explain why they are dominant in procurement …

Quality and suppliers performance are essential for procurement. This Paper analyses these important issues from two … the buyer may choose according to the circumstances of the procurement. The central issue is how the procurer should … procurement. The second part of the Paper deals with this important problem, also known as non-contractible quality.The part …

procurement outcomes in a large database for public works in Italy. Works with a value above a given threshold have to be awarded … that the same firm wins repeatedly, and it does not deteriorate (and may improve) the procurement outcomes we observe. The …

delay. Using a large dataset on Italian public procurement, we then study empirically the effects of court inefficiency on …

context of the US federal procurement of services and works by combining contract-level data on procurement performance and …

question in the context of the US federal procurement of services and works, by combining contract-level data on procurement …