Should the buyer of a customized good use competitive bidding or negotiation to select a contractor? To shed light on … procurement in the public sector are discussed …

In public sector procurement, social welfare often depends on the time taken to complete the contract. A leading … incentives. We characterize equilibrium bidding and efficient design of these contracts. We then gather an extensive data set of … and bidding to examine counterfactual policies. Our estimates suggest that while the current policy raised com- muter …

This paper tests whether demand shocks affect firm dynamics. We examine whether firms that win government procurement … procurement contracts over the period of 2004 to 2010. Exploiting a quasi-experimental design, we find that winning at least one …

resources on low quality projects at year's end. We test these predictions using data on procurement spending by the U …

Cartels participating in procurement auctions frequently use bid rotation or prioritize incumbents to allocate … Zona (1999), and a sample of municipal procurement auctions from Japan …

estimation method to repeated highway construction procurement auctions in the state of California between May 1996 and May 1999 …

This paper examines bidding in auctions for state highway construction contracts on Long Island in the early 1980s, in …, and the other firms then frequently submitted phony higher bids. The bidding data indicate that the bids of non …

procurement data from five countries. We find that bidders who win by a very small margin have significantly lower backlog than … those who lose by a very small margin in the sample of procurement auctions from Indonesia, suggesting that bidders collude … by bid rotation. Our results suggest that the proportion of noncompetitive auctions is at least about 5% for all E-procurement …