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"New" econometric evidence for the Baldwin-Richardson (1972)/Miyagiwa (1991) theoretical predictions in government procurement
Shingal, Anirudh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Baldwin and Richardson (1972) and Miyagiwa (1991) laid out the conditions under which a home-bias in public procurement is rendered ineffective as a protectionist device. Since then there has been little empirical work on this subject. In this paper, we bridge this gap by building a new dataset...
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Services Procurement Under the WTO’s Agreement on Government Procurement : Whither Market Access?
Shingal, Anirudh - 2011
of data submitted by Japan and Switzerland to the WTO's Committee on Government Procurement. Using several metrics, the … to foreign firms would have been more than 15 times higher in the case of Japan and nearly 68 times more in the case of … Switzerland. We also find that for the same services categories, at least the Japanese government is not purchasing as much from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014197319
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Public Procurement, Regional Integration and the Belt and Road Initiative
Ghossein, Tania M. - 2019
China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a mechanism through which countries can upgrade connectivity-related infrastructure, including through cross-border projects, complementing traditional sources of finance. An overarching goal of the BRI is to reduce trade costs between China and partner...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863670
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Infrastructure provision and Africa's trade and development prospects : potential role and relevance of The WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA)
Niggli, Nicholas C.; Osei-Lah, Kodjo - 2014 - Manuscript date: 30 October, 2014
Two issues stand out in this conversation. The first concerns the unfinished business of the global fight against the scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for economic performance - affordable and efficient public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010426539
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The European Defense Procurement Directive : An American Perspective
Yukins, Christopher R. - 2009
On August 21, the new European directive on defense and security procurement, Directive 2009/81/EC, entered into force. See, e.g.,EU Adopts New Defense and Security Procurement Directive, 6 IGC ¶ 65. Previously, most European defense procurement was considered exempt from the European...
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The Effectiveness of the European Union in Safeguarding Competition in Public Procurement Markets
Fazekas, Mihaly - 2018
The EU's single market in government purchases constitutes a fundamental pillar of economic integration throughout the continent, as it amounts to 4% of GDP. If competition is deficient efficiency losses ensue. As we know surprisingly little about the effectiveness of monitoring and enforcement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930361
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Barriers to International Trade in Procurement after the Economic Crisis, Part II : Opening International Procurement Markets: Unfinished Business
Yukins, Christopher R. - 2011
This paper, presented at the West Government Contracts Year in Review Conference (covering 2010), discusses developing issues in international public procurement. Among other things, the paper suggests that, in 2010, the international procurement market continued to mature, as cross-border...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014185475
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International Public Procurement Developments in 2008; Public Procurement in a World Economic Crisis
Anderson, Robert D.; Yukins, Christopher R. - 2009
These two papers, presented at the West Government Contracts Year in Review Conference (covering 2008), discuss developing issues in international public procurement. Among other things, the Anderson paper addresses the role of the World Trade Organization in public procurement; other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014046779
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Services procurement under the WTO’s agreement on government procurement: whither market access?
Shingal, Anirudh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
of data submitted by Japan and Switzerland to the WTO's Committee on Government Procurement. Using several metrics, the … awarded to foreign firms would have been more than 15 times higher in the case of Japan and nearly 68 times more in the case … of Switzerland. We also find that for the same services categories, the Japanese government is not purchasing as much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009251548
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Foreign market access in government procurement
Shingal, ANIRUDH - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
’ buying decisions. Using self-assembled and hitherto unexplored data on government procurement submitted by Japan and … Switzerland to the WTO, we study the determinants of foreign public procurement over the period 1990-2003. In doing so, we make a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246883