traditional procurement (TP) and public-private partnership (PPP). We show that a mixed regime, in which TP is used in one …

preferences of 900+ real-world public procurement officials in Finland and Germany. This is an important pursuit as they report … importance of multiple features of procurement outcomes. Officials prioritize avoiding unexpectedly high prices but not seeking …

procurement contracts in the United States with key financial firm-level information. Using panel fixed-effect models, propensity …

Firms’ political donations can induce distortions in the allocation of public procurement contracts. In this article … good provision is lower when a larger share of public procurement contracts is awarded to firms donating to the party in … power (‘party donors’). We link this efficiency difference to two underlying mechanisms: i.e. shifts in procurement contract …

construct by analyzing the entire universe of procurement contracts of the US government and establish five facts. First … expenditures its composition is biased. Third, procurement contracts are short-lived. Fourth, idiosyncratic variation dominates the …

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 …

experience demand shocks derived from a lottery-based assignment of public procurement contracts for construction services in …

Unlike standard auctions, we show that competitive procurement may optimally limit competition or use inefficient … allocation rules that award the project to a less efficient firm with positive probability. Procurement projects often involve ex … post moral hazard after the competitive process is over. A procurement mechanism must combine an incentive scheme with the …