In public sector procurement, social welfare often depends on the time taken to complete the contract. A leading …

This paper tests whether demand shocks affect firm dynamics. We examine whether firms that win government procurement … procurement contracts over the period of 2004 to 2010. Exploiting a quasi-experimental design, we find that winning at least one …

resources on low quality projects at year's end. We test these predictions using data on procurement spending by the U …

procurement in the public sector are discussed …

We design a field experiment to study how the allocation of authority between frontline procurement officers and their … Punjab, Pakistan, we shift authority from monitors to procurement officers and introduce financial incentives to a sample of … 600 procurement officers in 26 districts. We find that autonomy alone reduces prices by 9% without reducing quality and …

policies depend on the implementing bureaucrats' effectiveness? Using data on 16million public procurement purchases in Russia …—is due to the individual bureaucrats and organizations that manage procurement processes. Such differences in effectiveness … matter for policy design. To illustrate, we show that a common procurement policy— bid preferences for domestic suppliers …

Poorly functioning, and often corrupt, public procurement procedures are widely faulted for the low quality of … infrastructure provision in developing countries. Can electronic procurement (e-procurement), which reduces both the cost of … acquiring tender information and personal interaction between bidders and procurement officials, ameliorate these problems? In …