in the context of the US government’s procurement of R&D. We link tender, contract, patent, and office records to the … identity of the officer responsible for the procurement process to estimate how workload in the federal acquisition unit … officer is exposed to a declining workload. In our sample, an additional contracting officer in the procurement unit, holding …

question in the context of the US federal procurement of services and works, by combining contract-level data on procurement …

that might fail to deliver. The buyer conducts a procurement auction to determine contract suppliers and can choose between … plays an important role in procurement practice but attracted little attention in the academic analysis of procurement … auctions. Academic research on multi-sourcing procurement auction typically analyzes these auctions as stand-alone events. In …

For the procurement of complex goods the early exchange of information is important to avoid costly renegotiation. If …

improvement and introduction of innovations, this text offers information on defense procurement recently undertaken and analyzes …

procurement auction formats can take advantage of bidders' willingness-to-pay-willingness-to-accept disparity. In a laboratory … buyer. These results support and generalize findings on sales auctions. However, not all of our findings on procurement … auctions mirror findings on sales auctions. Bidders overbid in sealed-bid procurement auctions, which does not mirror the …