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Procurement Contracting with Time Incentives : Theory and Evidence
Bajari, Patrick - 2009
In public sector procurement, social welfare often depends on the time taken to complete the contract. A leading …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463793
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Auctions Versus Negotiations in Procurement : An Empirical Analysis
Bajari, Patrick - 2003
procurement in the public sector are discussed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468941
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Procuring Firm Growth : The Effects of Government Purchases on Firm Dynamics
Ferraz, Claudio - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457448
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Do Expiring Budgets Lead to Wasteful Year-End Spending? Evidence from Federal Procurement
Liebman, Jeffrey B. - 2013
resources on low quality projects at year's end. We test these predictions using data on procurement spending by the U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459181
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Past Performance and Procurement Outcomes
Decarolis, Francesco - 2016
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455866
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Do Information Frictions and Corruption Perceptions Kill Competition? A Field Experiment On Public Procurement in Uganda
Colonnelli, Emanuele; Loiacono, Francesco; Muhumuza, Edwin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
supervisory and anti-corruption agency in Uganda. The first RCT aims to increase firms' information on available procurement …. We conduct two nationwide randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in collaboration with the national public procurement … opportunities, which is limited due to the lack of a centralized e- procurement system. We provide firms with direct and timely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486261
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Monitoring for Waste : Evidence from Medicare Audits
Shi, Maggie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper examines the tradeoffs of monitoring for wasteful public spending. By penalizing unnecessary spending, monitoring improves the quality of public expenditure and incentivizes firms to invest in compliance technology. I study a large Medicare program that monitored for unnecessary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337803
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Market Response to Racial Uprisings
Ba, Bocar A.; Rivera, Roman; Whitefield, Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Do investors anticipate that demands for racial equity will impact companies? We explore this question in the context of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement--the largest racially motivated protest movement in U.S. history--and its effect on the U.S. policing industry using a novel dataset on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337839
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Estimating the Effects of Government Spending Through the Production Network
Barattieri, Alessandro; Cacciatore, Matteo; Traum, Nora - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We estimate the effects of government spending along the supply chain using disaggregated U.S. government procurement …-specific government purchases have sizable effects both in industries that receive procurement contracts and industries across the supply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372437
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Understanding the Effects of a Shock to Government Purchases
Edelberg, Wendy - 1998
This paper investigates the consequences of an exogenous increase in U.S. government purchases. We find that in response to such a shock, employment, output, and nonresidential investment rise, while real wages, residential investment, and consumption expenditures fall. The paper argues that a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472077