Firms invest in scientific research to increase their chances of landing lucrative procurement contracts with the U … traded manufacturing firms from 1980 through 2015, we estimate the effect of procurement contracts on upstream (scientific … effect is stronger when market incentives are weak. Procurement contracts encourage publications that: (i) are not used in …

significantly more likely to prevent corruption in public procurement, a key area of illicit interactions between the state and …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …