Italian data, female procurement officials are 34 percent less likely than men to be investigated for corruption by …

procurement data from five countries. We find that bidders who win by a very small margin have significantly lower backlog than … those who lose by a very small margin in the sample of procurement auctions from Indonesia, suggesting that bidders collude … by bid rotation. Our results suggest that the proportion of noncompetitive auctions is at least about 5% for all E-procurement …

We present a model of public procurement in which both contractual flexibility and political tolerance for contractual … procurement contracts in which the procurer is either a public administration or a private corporation. We find robust evidence …

Vaccinating the world's population quickly in a pandemic has enormous health and economic benefits. We analyze the … problem faced by governments in determining the scale and structure of procurement for vaccines. We analyze alternative … approaches to procurement. We find that if the goal is to accelerate the vaccine delivery timetable, buyers should directly fund …

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 …