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

the world influences the costs of the suppliers. Complete contracts conditioning on all future realizations of the state …

We consider a multi-dimensional procurement problem in which sellers have private information about their costs and … Bayesian procurement mechanism that implements the efficient allocation under the constraint that sellers are protected by …

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 …

The procurement of complex projects is often plagued by large cost overruns. One important reason for these additional …

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

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 …

outcomes. We focus on a major public sector activity and survey more than 900 real-life procurement officials in Finland and …

procurement. Our identification strategy leverages a legislative change in Italy that mandated centralized purchases for a sub …