Vaccinating the world’s population quickly in a pandemic has enormous health and economic benefits. We analyze the … problem faced by governments in determining the scale and structure of procurement for vaccines. We analyze alternative … approaches to procurement. We find that if the goal is to accelerate the vaccine delivery timetable, buyers should directly fund …

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

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 …

procurement in the public sector are discussed …

-slump macroeconomic cycles. During both crises, world trade collapsed faster than world incomes and the trade decline was highly …