procurement contracts and invest more than do firms connected to the loser. …

, including ideas and research, from their strategic suppliers. A careful design of procurement policy is crucial to make … potential suppliers generate and sell the most suitable innovation. Moreover, procurement by public agencies and large firms … consider a menu of procurement methods and policies for best procuring new knowledge and innovative products, discussing their …

The design of cost minimizing procurement rules for the selection of contractors among distinct technological groups …

A model of entrepreneurial choices in an economy with a corrupt public procurement sector is built, providing …. Second, firms favoured with corrupt contracts enjoy extra returns, so that procurement related activities attract the best … entrepreneurs. A large scale microeconomic database, including all public procurement operations over a 4 year period in Paraguay …

For the procurement of complex goods the early exchange of information is important to avoid costly renegotiation ex … use of negotiations as a procurement mechanism in private industry. …

procurement, may hinder entry by new firms in public procurement markets. In this paper we report results from a laboratory … experiment exploring the relationship between reputation and entry in procurement. We implement a repeated procurement game with …

standardized goods by Italian public bodies and exploit a policy experiment associated with a national procurement agency. A … revealed preference argument implies that if public bodies with higher costs are more likely to buy from the procurement agency …

procurement has become the major `hole' in the coverage of the GATT. This paper provides an analysis of the new Government … Procurement Agreement that was negotiated between a subset of GATT members in the Uruguay Round, focusing in particular on the …