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Rules, Discretion, and Corruption in Procurement : Evidence from Italian Government Contracting

Decarolis, Francesco - 2020

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 … associated with corruption only when conducted with fewer than the formally required number of bidders or employing discretionary …

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Gender and Bureaucratic Corruption : Evidence from Two Countries

Decarolis, Francesco; Fisman, Raymond; Pinotti, Paolo; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We examine the correlation between gender and bureaucratic corruption using two distinct datasets, one from Italy and a … second from China. In each case, we find that women are far less likely to be investigated for corruption than men. In our … Italian data, female procurement officials are 34 percent less likely than men to be investigated for corruption by …

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Using Bid Rotation and Incumbency to Detect Collusion : A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Kawai, Kei; Nakabayashi, Jun; Ortner, Juan M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Cartels participating in procurement auctions frequently use bid rotation or prioritize incumbents to allocate contracts. However, establishing a link between observed allocation patterns and firm conduct has been difficult: there are cost-based competitive explanations for such patterns. We...

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Revealing Corruption : Firm and Worker Level Evidence from Brazil

Colonnelli, Emanuele; Lagaras, Spyridon; Ponticelli, Jacopo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

government using randomized audits of public procurement in Brazil. On average, firms exposed by the anti-corruption program grow … details of thousands of corruption cases, through which we uncover a large heterogeneity in our firm-level effects depending … on the degree of involvement in corruption cases. Using investment-, loan-, and worker- level data, we show that the …

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Output Effects of Government Purchases

Barro, Robert J. - 1980

Because of a small direct negative effect on private spending, temporary variations in government purchases as in wartime, would have a strong positive effect on aggregate demand. Intertemporal substitution effects would direct work and production toward these periods where output was valued...

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Demand Shocks, Procurement Policies, and the Nature of Medical Innovation : Evidence from Wartime Prosthetic Device Patents

Clemens, Jeffrey - 2020

We analyze wartime prosthetic device patents to investigate how procurement policy affects the cost, quality, and quantity of medical innovation. Analyzing whether inventions emphasize cost and/or quality requires generating new data. We do this by first hand-coding the economic traits...

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The Allocation of Authority in Organizations : A Field Experiment with Bureaucrats

Bandiera, Oriana - 2020

illustrate that organizational design and anti-corruption policies must balance agency issues at different levels of the …

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The Impact of Industry Consolidation on Government Procurement : Evidence from Department of Defense Contracting

Carril, Rodrigo - 2018

We study the relationship between market structure and public procurement outcomes. In particular, we ask whether and to what extent consolidation-driven increases in industry concentration affect the way in which the government procures its goods and services. We focus on the defense industry,...

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Big G

Cox, Lydia - 2020

Big G typically refers to aggregate government spending on a homogeneous good. In this paper, we open up this construct by analyzing the entire universe of procurement contracts of the US government and establish five facts. First, government spending is granular, that is, it is concentrated in...

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Preparing for a Pandemic : Accelerating Vaccine Availability

Ahuja, Amrita; Athey, Susan; Baker, Arthur; Budish, Eric B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Vaccinating the world's population quickly in a pandemic has enormous health and economic benefits. We analyze the problem faced by governments in determining the scale and structure of procurement for vaccines. We analyze alternative approaches to procurement. We find that if the goal is to...

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