commissions in procurement lowers prices, whereas increasing competition among providers mainly raises commissions. Moreover …

Infrastructure costs in the United States are high and rising. The procurement process is one potential cost driver. In … this paper we conduct a survey of procurement practices across the 50 states. We survey both employees at each state … able to create a new dataset of procurement rules and practices across the U.S. and understand what actors on the ground …

&D contracts not only finance innovation but also embed an implicit government guarantee of noncompetitive future procurement for …, but only for noncompetitive awards to vertically integrated or large firms. These results suggest that a procurement …

We analyze the organization of corruption in a state agency. The dual mandate of the Democratic Republic of the Congo … profits and distortions beyond those that would be made possible via corruption by individual state officials …

cost of corruption, in the context of public transport. We first document that police stops can lead to long bribe …

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 …

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 …