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Political Donations, Public Procurement and Government Efficiency
Titl, Vítězslav - 2019
Firms’ political donations can induce distortions in the allocation of public procurement contracts. In this article, we employ an advanced non-parametric efficiency model to study the public sector (cost) efficiency implications of such distortions. Using a unique dataset covering the Czech...
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Demand Shocks, Procurement Policies, and the Nature of Medical Innovation : Evidence from Wartime Prosthetic Device Patents
Clemens, Jeffrey P.; Rogers, Parker - 2021
We analyze wartime prosthetic device patents to investigate how demand and procurement policy can shape medical innovation. We use machine learning tools to develop new data describing the aspects of medical and mechanical innovations that are emphasized in patent documents. Our analysis of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314761
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What are the Priorities of Bureaucrats? Evidence from Conjoint Experiments with Procurement Officials
Tukiainen, Janne; Blesse, Sebastian; Bohne, Albrecht; … - 2023
While effective bureaucracy is crucial for state capacity, its decision-making remains a black box. We elicit preferences of 900+ real-world public procurement officials in Finland and Germany. This is an important pursuit as they report having sizeable discretion and minimal extrinsic...
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The Null Result Penalty
Chopra, Felix; Haaland, Ingar; Roth, Christopher; … - 2022
We examine how the evaluation of research studies in economics depends on whether a study yielded a null result. Studies with null results are perceived to be less publishable, of lower quality, less important, and less precisely estimated than studies with significant results, even when holding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082791
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Deviant or Wrong? The Effects of Norm Information on the Efficacy of Punishment
Bicchieri, Cristina; Dimant, Eugen; Xiao, Erte - 2021
Research examining the effect of weak punishment on conformity indicates that punishment can backfire and lead to … of social norms and their interplay with weak punishment in the context of a trust game. Across six conditions, we … systematically vary the combination of existence of weak punishment and norm information. Norm information may refer either to what …
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Asymmetric Yardstick Competition : Traditional Procurement Versus Public-Private Partnerships
Liddo, Giuseppe Di - 2019
We investigate yardstick competition between local jurisdictions in which pure rent-seeking incumbents undertake an identical infrastructure project choosing be- tween two contractual arrangements with different financing profiles, namely traditional procurement (TP) and public-private...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892139
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The Increasing Cost of Buying American
Bombardini, Matilde; Gonzalez-Lira, Andres; Li, Bingjing; … - 2024
The latest resurgence in the U.S. of policies aimed at reducing imports and bolstering domestic production has included the expansion of Buy American provisions. While some of these are new and untested, in this paper we evaluate long-standing procurement limitations on the purchase of foreign...
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Arm's Length Provision of Public Services
Bennedsen, Morten; Schultz, Christian - 2021
We analyze the economic consequences of strategic delegation of the right to decide between public or private provision of a governmental service and/or the authority to negotiate and renegotiate with the chosen service provider. Our model encompasses both bureaucratic delegation from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316659
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Discrimination in dynamic procurement design with learning-by-doing
Barbosa, Klenio; Boyer, Pierre C. - 2012
Discriminatory programs that favor local and small firms in government procurement are common in many countries. This paper studies the long-run impact of procurement discrimination on market structure and future competition in industries where learning-by-doing makes incumbent firms more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288456
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Auctions vs. negotiations: The case of favoritism
Gretschko, Vitali; Wambach, Achim - 2012
expected punishment is small, the negotiation is always more efficient and generates a higher surplus for the sellers. …
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