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context of the US federal procurement of services and works by combining contract-level data on procurement performance and …
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Reputational incentives may be a powerful mechanism for improving supplier performance. We analyze their role in contract awarding, exploiting an experiment run by a firm which introduced a new vendor rating system scoring suppliers' past performance and linking it to the award of future...
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This paper provides direct empirical evidence on the relationship between technology and firms' global sourcing strategies. Using new data on U.S. firms' decisions to contract for manufacturing services from domestic or foreign suppliers, I show that a firm's adoption of communication technology...
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We examine the impact of outside purchase contracts on firm risk and firm capital structure. We find that firms with more outside purchase contracts have less risky cash flows. Despite these less risky cash flows, firms with these contracts also have less financial leverage especially when they...
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The U.S. public transit system represents a multi-billion dollar industry that provides essential transit services to millions of urban residents. We study the market for new transit buses that features a set of non-profit transit agencies purchasing buses primarily from a few domestic bus...
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procurement by NGOs … procurement attracts multi-national generic suppliers and significantly reduces prices for originators and generics, compared to …
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firms to physicians and medical device procurement by hospitals. These payments (and the interactions that accompany them …' treatment decisions, and in turn hospital device procurement, in favor of paying firms. Payments are pervasive: 87 percent of … the relationship between expertise and device procurement patterns. Hospitals affiliated with the top Academic Medical …
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for private gain. We study the relationship between discretion and corruption in Italian government procurement auctions …, using a confidential database of firms and procurement officials investigated for corruption by Italian enforcement … chosen more often by officials who are themselves investigated for corruption, they are used less often in procurement …
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enforcement affects efficiency in procurement auctions for the largest power projects in India. I gather data on bidding and ex …
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Procurement contracts are often incomplete because the initial plans and specifications are changed and refined after … and local market power, which are the focus on much of the literature on optimal procurement mechanisms, are much smaller …
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