not materialize, they must rush to spend these resources on low quality projects at the end of the year. We test these … predictions using data on procurement spending by the U.S. federal government. Using contract-level data on a near-universe of … average. Using a newly available dataset that tracks the quality of $130 billion in information technology (I.T.) projects, we …

Procurement contracts are often incomplete because the initial plans and specifications are changed and refined after … and local market power, which are the focus on much of the literature on optimal procurement mechanisms, are much smaller …

provided (e.g., information about potential workers, monitoring and reputation foundations). …

stories, based on uncertainty and asymmetric information about the project quality or research abilities. …

from keeping costs below target provided they also maintain quality levels. To promote integration and facilitate …

vehicles pass" inspections, focusing on multiperiod mechanisms such as those in reputation models. I show that" the demand …

The lack of flexibility in public procurement design and implementation reflects public agents' political risk …

investigate how generic drug producers compete in the presence of the procurement rules of the Medicaid program. Medicaid …