-standing procurement limitations on the purchase of foreign products by the U.S. Federal Government. We use procurement micro-data to first …

This paper uses a new database to establish a key finding: high tariffs were associated with fast growth before World … controlling for novel measures of the changing world economic environment. Rejecting alternative explanations based on changing … head in a world environment characterized by a moderately higher level of generalized tariff protection. We confirm the …

welfare gain from moving to a world with frictionless trade. In this model, a country's trade potential depends on only the …

In public sector procurement, social welfare often depends on the time taken to complete the contract. A leading …

procurement in the public sector are discussed …

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 …

procurement contracts above the threshold under the GPA also fosters service imports, exports and outward foreign affiliate sales …This paper assesses the impacts of the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) on trade in both goods and services … in the earlier GATT procurement code. Government service markets are large, and trade in these also has spillover effects …