In public sector procurement, social welfare often depends on the time taken to complete the contract. A leading … departments have introduced innovative contracting methods based on scoring auctions that give contractors explicit time …

This paper considers functions of contracting other than the protection of relationship-specific investments and the … provision of marginal incentives, and applies the theory to explain variation in the form of compensation of over-the-road truck … of hauls in a way that is consistent with the theory. By contrast, we find that vehicle ownership, which defines a driver …

procurement by NGOs. The cross-national income elasticity of prices is 0.4 across high and low income countries, but is only 0 …. Tendered procurement attracts multi-national generic suppliers and significantly reduces prices for originators and generics …

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

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 …

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