, competition and entry in procurement markets. I focus especially on public procurement, which is highly regulated for …

produced in-house. However, procurement may foster performance-improving innovation. We assemble a large data set on elderly … subjectively perceived quality of service. We estimate how procurement from private providers affects these measures using a … difference-in-difference approach. The results indicate that procurement significantly increases non-contractible quality as …

procurement. There is widespread concern among regulators that favoring suppliers with good past performance, a standard practice … in private procurement, may hinder entry by new (smaller or foreign) firms in public procurement markets. Our results …