In public sector procurement, social welfare often depends on the time taken to complete the contract. A leading …

procurement in the public sector are discussed …

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 …

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

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 …

government using randomized audits of public procurement in Brazil. On average, firms exposed by the anti-corruption program grow … larger after the audits, despite experiencing a decrease in procurement contracts. We manually collect new data on the …

We analyze wartime prosthetic device patents to investigate how procurement policy affects the cost, quality, and … inventors to focus broadly on reducing costs, while the less cost-conscious procurement contracts of World War I did not. We …' preferences across wars. Finally, we find that the Civil War and World War I procurement shocks led to substantial increases in …

We design a field experiment to study how the allocation of authority between frontline procurement officers and their … Punjab, Pakistan, we shift authority from monitors to procurement officers and introduce financial incentives to a sample of … 600 procurement officers in 26 districts. We find that autonomy alone reduces prices by 9% without reducing quality and …