Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 982
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012872063
Cover Image
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 … U.S. Civil War and World War I led to substantial increases in the quantity of prosthetic device patenting relative to … on improving aspects of the production process, while World War I did not, consistent with the United States applying a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314761
Cover Image
What are the Priorities of Bureaucrats? Evidence from Conjoint Experiments with Procurement Officials
Tukiainen, Janne; Blesse, Sebastian; Bohne, Albrecht; … - 2023
preferences of 900+ real-world public procurement officials in Finland and Germany. This is an important pursuit as they report …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014263185
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
Auctions vs. negotiations: The case of favoritism
Gretschko, Vitali; Wambach, Achim - 2012
We compare two commonly used mechanisms in procurement: auctions and negotiations. The execution of the procurement mechanism is delegated to an agent of the buyer. The agent has private information about the buyer's preferences and may collude with one of the sellers. We provide a precise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291548
Cover Image
Financial constraints and other obstacles: are they a threat to innovation activity?
Mohnen, Pierre A.; Palm, Franz; van der Loeff, Sybrand Schim - 2008
In this paper we examine the importance of financial and other obstacles to innovation in the Netherlands using statistical information from the CIS 3.5 innovation survey. We report results on the effect of these obstacles on the firms' decision to abandon, prematurely stop, seriously slow down,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275869
Cover Image
Complementarity of innovation policies in the Brazilian industry : an econometric study
Strube, Eduardo; Resende, Marcelo - 2009
The paper aims at assessing discrete complementarities in innovation policies in the context of the Brazilian industry in 2003. The paper considers the approach advanced by Mohnen and and Röller [European Economic Review, 2005] that focuses on supermodularity and submodularity tests for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276376
Cover Image
Big G
Cox, Lydia - 2020
"Big G" typically refers to aggregate government spending on a homogeneous good. In this paper, we open up this construct by analyzing the entire universe of procurement contracts of the US government and establish five facts. First, government spending is granular, that is, it is concentrated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836206
Cover Image
Can Government Demand Stimulate Private Investment? Evidence from U.S. Federal Procurement
Hebous, Shafik - 2019
local multipliers in that increases in regional outputs should ultimately be reflected in firm balance sheets (demand for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891052
Cover Image
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