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Anti-corruption campaign in China : an empirical investigation
Yang, Li; Milanović, Branko; Lin, Yaoqi - 2023
database of officials who have been found guilty of corruption in China in the period 2012-21 with their personal … characteristics and the amount of embezzled funds. We use it to investigate the correlates of corruption, estimate the effects of … corruption on inequality, and find the expected increase in officials’ income due to corruption and the gain in income …
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The effect of discretion on procurement performance
Coviello, Decio; Guglielmo, Andrea; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - 2016
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Procuring survival
Cappelletti, Matilde; Giuffrida, Leonardo M. - 2021
Public spending (i.e., “G”) enables governments to fulfill their fiscal policies. This paper takes a micro perspective and quantifies the impact of procurement spending - a specific component of G - on firm survival. We find that firms that receive public contracts survive longer, ceteris...
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Election cycles in European public procurement
Havlik, Annika; Heinemann, Friedrich; Nover, Justus - 2021
This paper studies the existence of election cycles in public procurement in the European Union for the national level. We analyze different steps along the procurement process, namely the publication of the contract notice, the awarding of the contract, and the project completion. We point out...
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Does green public procurement trigger environmental innovations?
Krieger, Bastian; Zipperer, Vera - 2021 - This version: August 2021
Green public procurement has gained high political priority and is argued to be an effective demand-side policy to trigger environmental innovations. Its implementation usually takes the form of environmental award selection criteria in public procurement tenders. However, there is no direct or...
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Centralized procurement and delivery times : evidence from a natural experiment in Italy
Clark, Robert; Coviello, Decio; Leverano, Adriano de - 2021
We study how delivery times and prices for hospital medical devices respond to the introduction of centralized procurement. Our identification strategy leverages a legislative change in Italy that mandated centralized purchases for a sub-set of devices. The statutory centralization generated a...
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Targeted bidders in government tenders
Cappelletti, Matilde; Giuffrida, Leonardo M. - 2022
A set-aside restricts participation in procurement contests to targeted firms. Despite being widely used, its effects on actual competition and contract outcomes are ambiguous. We pool a decade of US federal procurement data to shed light on this empirical question using a two-stage approach. To...
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Complementary bidding and the collusive arrangement : evidence from an antitrust investigation
Clark, Robert; Coviello, Decio; Leverano, Adriano de - 2020
A number of recent papers have proposed that a pattern of isolated winning bids may be associated with collusion. In contrast, others have suggested that bid clustering, especially of the two lowest bids, is indicative of collusion. In this paper, we present evidence from an actual procurement...
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Tenure in office and public procurement
Coviello, Decio; Gagliarducci, Stefano - 2017
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Ex-post optimal knapsack procurement
Jarman, Felix; Meisner, Vincent - 2017
We consider a budget-constrained mechanism designer who selects an optimal set of projects to maximize her utility. Projects may differ in their value for the designer, and their cost is private information. In this allocation problem, the quantity of procured projects is endogenously determined...
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