Infrastructure costs in the United States are high and rising. The procurement process is one potential cost driver. In … this paper we conduct a survey of procurement practices across the 50 states. We survey both employees at each state … able to create a new dataset of procurement rules and practices across the U.S. and understand what actors on the ground …

We analyze the organization of corruption in a state agency. The dual mandate of the Democratic Republic of the Congo … profits and distortions beyond those that would be made possible via corruption by individual state officials …

cost of corruption, in the context of public transport. We first document that police stops can lead to long bribe …

firms to physicians and medical device procurement by hospitals. These payments (and the interactions that accompany them …' treatment decisions, and in turn hospital device procurement, in favor of paying firms. Payments are pervasive: 87 percent of … the relationship between expertise and device procurement patterns. Hospitals affiliated with the top Academic Medical …

anti-corruption enforcement affect the expected quality of governance through candidate self-selection. We also show that …

, incomplete contracts, taxes, regulations, or corruption? This paper develops new tools for the study of misallocation that place … experience demand shocks derived from a lottery-based assignment of public procurement contracts for construction services in …