. We conduct two nationwide randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in collaboration with the national public procurement … supervisory and anti-corruption agency in Uganda. The first RCT aims to increase firms' information on available procurement … opportunities, which is limited due to the lack of a centralized e- procurement system. We provide firms with direct and timely …

experience demand shocks derived from a lottery-based assignment of public procurement contracts for construction services in …

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 …

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 …