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Building political collusion: Evidence from procurement auctions
Coviello, Decio; Gagliarducci, Stefano - 2010
We investigate the relationship between the time politicians stay in office and the functioning of public procurement …. To this purpose, we collect a data set on the Italian municipal governments and all the procurement auctions they … of favoritism in repeated procurement auctions, where time reveals collusive types, thus increasing the value of illegal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269756
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Building Political Collusion: Evidence from Procurement Auctions
Coviello, Decio; Gagliarducci, Stefano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We investigate the relationship between the time politicians stay in office and the functioning of public procurement …. To this purpose, we collect a data set on the Italian municipal governments and all the procurement auctions they … of favoritism in repeated procurement auctions, where time reveals collusive types, thus increasing the value of illegal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506079
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Opening up Military Innovation: Causal Effects of 'Bottom-up' Reforms to U.S. Defense Research
Howell, Sabrina T.; Rathje, Jason; Van Reenen, John; … - 2021
When investing in research and development (R&D), institutions must decide whether to take a top-down approach – soliciting a particular technology – or a bottom-up approach in which innovators suggest ideas. This paper examines a reform to the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597443
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How Big Is Small? The Economic Effects of Access to Small Business Subsidies
Brown, J. David; Denes, Matthew; Duchin, Ran; Hackney, John - 2024
government procurement contracts from smaller to larger firms. Consequently, industries become more concentrated and growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015045466
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Bureaucratic rents and life satisfaction
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2006
The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267660
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The Race for an Artificial General Intelligence: Implications for Public Policy
Naudé, Wim; Dimitri, Nicola - 2018
using public procurement. This would reduce the pay-off of contestants, raise the amount of R&D needed to compete, and … research is needed to elaborate the design of systems of public procurement of AI innovation and for appropriately adjusting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931702
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To Draft or Not to Draft? Efficiency, Generational Incidence, and Political Economy of Military Conscription
Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - 2005
We study the efficiency and distributional consequences of establishing and abolishing the draft in a dynamic model with overlapping generations, taking into account endogenous human capital formation as well as government budget constraints. The introduction of the draft initially benefits the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262660
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Military draft and economic growth in OECD countries
Keller, Katarina; Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - 2006
Economic theory predicts that military conscription is associated with static inefficiencies as well as with dynamic distortions of the accumulation of human and physical capital. Relative to an economy with an all-volunteer force, output levels and growth rates should be lower in countries that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269223
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Public Procurement and Innovation for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
Naudé, Wim; Dimitri, Nicola - 2021
we contribute to the debate on HCAI by arguing that public procurement and innovation (PPaI) can be used to incentivize … HCAI. We dissect the literature on PPaI and HCAI and provide a simple theoretical model to show that procurement of … argument in favor of PPaI for HCAI is also an argument for the more innovative use of public procurement, and is consistent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497922
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To Draft or Not to Draft? Efficiency, Generational Incidence, and Political Economy of Military Conscription
Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We study the efficiency and distributional consequences of establishing and abolishing the draft in a dynamic model with overlapping generations, taking into account endogenous human capital formation as well as government budget constraints. The introduction of the draft initially benefits the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703635