Centralization of public procurement can lower prices for the government's direct purchase of goods and services. This … paper focuses on indirect savings. Public administrations that do not procure directly through a central procurement agency …

-agent framework, it analyzes two alternative policy-decision schemes decentralization' and centralization' when knowledge' consists of …

standard-setting with two means of interventionist harmonization: through centralization and through allocation of lawmaking …

centralization increases the provision of primary education relatively more in linguistically polarized counties. …

. We conclude that a more robust policy framework with substantial centralization of procurement, stockpiling and … collective action triggered by the corona virus pandemic. In the face of such a crisis, we argue that the joint procurement …

federalism in which centralization is less likely to occur where budget referendums are possible. The reason for this result is … that budget referendums reduce the extent to which pro-centralization regions can commit to a low level of spending … delegating the centralization choice to elected poli-cymakers. In addition, it reduces the ability of higher level policy …

Cost overrun is ubiquitous in public procurement. We argue that this can be the result of a constraint optimal award …

We analyze wartime prosthetic device patents to investigate how demand and procurement policy can shape medical … more cost-conscious procurement model during the Civil War. Third, we find that inventors emphasized dimensions of product … historical record, across wars. We conclude that procurement environments can significantly shape the scientific problems with …