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Rules, Discretion, and Corruption in Procurement : Evidence from Italian Government Contracting
Decarolis, Francesco; Fisman, Raymond J.; Pinotti, Paolo; … - 2022
for private gain. We study the relationship between discretion and corruption in Italian government procurement auctions …, using a confidential database of firms and procurement officials investigated for corruption by Italian enforcement … associated with corruption only when conducted with fewer than the formally required number of bidders or employing discretionary …
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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
Deadlines and penalties are widely used to incentivize effort. We model how these incentive contracts affect the work rate and time taken in a procurement setting, characterizing the efficient contract design. Using new micro-level data on Minnesota highway construction contracts that includes...
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 among members using a gravity model applied to a panel dataset covering 20 OECD countries over the period 1996-2008 for trade in goods and 1999-2008 for trade in services. The...
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 adaptation to limit hazards from opportunistic third parties - political opponents, competitors, interest groups - while externalizing the associated adaptation costs to the public at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096138
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The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment
Chatterji, Aaron - 2014
In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...
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Public Procurement and the Private Supply of Green Buildings
Simcoe, Timothy - 2014
We measure the impact of municipal policies requiring governments to construct green buildings on private-sector adoption of the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standard. Using matching methods, panel data, and instrumental variables, we find...
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Do Expiring Budgets Lead to Wasteful Year-End Spending? Evidence from Federal Procurement
Liebman, Jeffrey B. - 2013
Many organizations have budgets that expire at the end of the fiscal year and may face incentives to rush to spend resources on low quality projects at year's end. We test these predictions using data on procurement spending by the U.S. federal government. Spending in the last week of the year...
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The Allocation of Authority in Organizations : A Field Experiment with Bureaucrats
Bandiera, Oriana - 2020
illustrate that organizational design and anti-corruption policies must balance agency issues at different levels of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841922
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Individuals and Organizations as Sources of State Effectiveness
Best, Michael - 2017
How important are bureaucrats for the productivity of the state? And to what extent do the tradeoffs between different policies depend on the implementing bureaucrats' effectiveness? Using data on 16million public procurement purchases in Russia during 2011–2016, we show that over 40 percent...
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