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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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

We investigate the impact of public procurement spending on business survival. Using Italy as a laboratory, we … public contract data. Employing a regression discontinuity design for close-call procurement auctions, we find that winners …

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 efficient over time. We consider a sequential procurement design problem …

We compare two commonly used mechanisms in procurement: auctions and negotiations. The execution of the procurement …

We investigate the impact of public procurement spending on business survival. Using Italy as a laboratory, we … public contract data. Employing a regression discontinuity design for close-call procurement auctions, we find that winners …

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 …