In public sector procurement, social welfare often depends on the time taken to complete the contract. A leading … departments have introduced innovative contracting methods based on scoring auctions that give contractors explicit time …

This paper considers functions of contracting other than the protection of relationship-specific investments and the … provision of marginal incentives, and applies the theory to explain variation in the form of compensation of over-the-road truck … of hauls in a way that is consistent with the theory. By contrast, we find that vehicle ownership, which defines a driver …

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 …

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 …

procurement in the public sector are discussed …

context of the US federal procurement of services and works by combining contract-level data on procurement performance and …