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An extensive literature has studied lobbying by special interest groups. We analyze a novel lobbying channel: lobbying businessmen-politicians through business proxies. When a politician controls a business, firms attempting to curry favors shift their spending towards the politician's business....
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procurement decisions in the context of India. We compare 3 different allocation strategies (oldest first, highest contact rate … vaccines that can practically guide government procurement decisions. Our analysis yields 4 novel findings. First, the need to …
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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 …
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The strength of contract enforcement determines how firms source inputs and organize production. Using microdata on Indian manufacturing plants, we show that production and sourcing decisions appear systematically distorted in states with weaker enforcement. Specifically, we document that in...
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In public sector procurement, social welfare often depends on the time taken to complete the contract. A leading …
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This paper applies ideas from mechanism design to model procurement of prescription drugs. We present a mechanism for … government-funded market-driven drug procurement that achieves very close to full static efficiency -- all members have access to …
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Procurement contracts are often incomplete because the initial plans and specifications are changed and refined after … and local market power, which are the focus on much of the literature on optimal procurement mechanisms, are much smaller …
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procurement in the public sector are discussed …
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context of the US federal procurement of services and works by combining contract-level data on procurement performance and …
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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...
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