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Public Contracting for Private Innovation : Government Expertise, Decision Rights, and Performance Outcomes
Bruce, Joshua R. - 2018
We examine how the U.S. Federal Government governs R&D contracts with private-sector firms. The government chooses between two contractual forms: grants and cooperative agreements. The latter provides the government substantially greater discretion over, and monitoring of, project progress....
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Do Expiring Budgets Lead to Wasteful Year-End Spending? Evidence from Federal Procurement
Liebman, Jeffrey B. - 2013
resources on low quality projects at year's end. We test these predictions using data on procurement spending by the U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075413
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Procurement Contracting with Time Incentives : Theory and Evidence
Bajari, Patrick - 2010
In public sector procurement, social welfare often depends on the time taken to complete the contract. A leading …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757589
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Past Performance and Procurement Outcomes
Decarolis, Francesco - 2016
Reputational incentives may be a powerful mechanism for improving supplier performance and limiting the perverse effect of price competition on contract execution. We analyze a unique experiment run by a large utility company in Italy which introduced a new vendor rating system scoring its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979373
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Procuring Firm Growth : The Effects of Government Purchases on Firm Dynamics
Ferraz, Claudio - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021875
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Auctions Versus Negotiations in Procurement : An Empirical Analysis
Bajari, Patrick; McMillan, Robert Stanton; Tadelis, Steven - 2021
procurement in the public sector are discussed …
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What the Government Purchases Multiplier Actually Multiplied in the 2009 Stimulus Package
Cogan, John F. - 2010
Much of the recent economic debate about the impact of stimulus packages has focused on the size of the crucial government purchases multiplier. But equally crucial is the size of the government purchases multiplicand--the change in government purchases of goods and services that the multiplier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136548
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Moral Hazard, Incentive Contracts and Risk : Evidence from Procurement
Lewis, Gregory - 2011
rate and time taken in a procurement setting, characterizing the efficient contract design. Using new micro-level data on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117563
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The WTO Government Procurement Agreement and its Impacts on Trade
Chen, Hejing - 2011
This paper assesses the impacts of the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) on trade in both goods and services … in the earlier GATT procurement code. Government service markets are large, and trade in these also has spillover effects … growth of government procurement contracts above the threshold under the GPA also fosters service imports, exports and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120994
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Third-Party Opportunism and the Nature of Public Contracts
Moszoro, Marian W. - 2012
The lack of flexibility in public procurement design and implementation reflects public agents' political risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096138