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Auctions Versus Negotiations in Procurement : An Empirical Analysis
Bajari, Patrick - 2003
procurement in the public sector are discussed …
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Procurement Contracting with Time Incentives : Theory and Evidence
Bajari, Patrick - 2009
In public sector procurement, social welfare often depends on the time taken to complete the contract. A leading …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463793
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Past Performance and Procurement Outcomes
Decarolis, Francesco - 2016
Reputational incentives may be a powerful mechanism for improving supplier performance. We analyze their role in contract awarding, exploiting an experiment run by a firm which introduced a new vendor rating system scoring suppliers' past performance and linking it to the award of future...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455866
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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/10012457448
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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/10012459181
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Using Bid Rotation and Incumbency to Detect Collusion : A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Kawai, Kei; Nakabayashi, Jun; Ortner, Juan M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Cartels participating in procurement auctions frequently use bid rotation or prioritize incumbents to allocate … Zona (1999), and a sample of municipal procurement auctions from Japan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814400
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Estimation of a Dynamic Auction Game
Jofre-Bonet, Mireia - 2001
estimation method to repeated highway construction procurement auctions in the state of California between May 1996 and May 1999 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470090
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Detection of Bid Rigging in Procurement Auctions
Porter, Robert H. - 1992
This paper examines bidding in auctions for state highway construction contracts on Long Island in the early 1980s, in order to determine whether bid rigging occurred. Detection of collusion is possible because of limited participation in the collusive scheme. The paper looks at differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474967
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A Study of Bid-rigging in Procurement Auctions : Evidence from Indonesia, Georgia, Mongolia, Malta, and State of California
Kawai, Kei; Nakabayashi, Jun; Shimamoto, Daichi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
procurement data from five countries. We find that bidders who win by a very small margin have significantly lower backlog than … those who lose by a very small margin in the sample of procurement auctions from Indonesia, suggesting that bidders collude … by bid rotation. Our results suggest that the proportion of noncompetitive auctions is at least about 5% for all E-procurement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334488
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Individuals and Organizations as Sources of State Effectiveness, and Consequences for Policy
Best, Michael Carlos - 2017
implementing policy? We investigate this question and its implications for policy design in the context of public procurement … 2011-2015 is due to the bureaucrats and organizations administering procurement processes. This has dramatic policy … consequences. To illustrate these, we study a ubiquitous procurement policy: bid preferences for favored firms (here domestic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455331