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

and quantifies the impact of procurement spending - a specific component of G - on firm survival. We find that firms that …

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

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 …

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 …