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Demand Shocks, Procurement Policies, and the Nature of Medical Innovation : Evidence from Wartime Prosthetic Device Patents

Clemens, Jeffrey - 2020

quantity of medical innovation. Analyzing whether inventions emphasize cost and/or quality requires generating new data. We do …

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Globalization and innovation in emerging markets

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2008

, vertical linkages with foreign firms, and international trade on several types of innovation by domestic firms. Using … and innovation and show that the supply chain of multinational enterprises and international trade are also important … channels. There is no evidence for an inverted U relationship between innovation and foreign competition. The relationship …

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Using Bid Rotation and Incumbency to Detect Collusion : A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Kawai, Kei; Nakabayashi, Jun; Ortner, Juan M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Cartels participating in procurement auctions frequently use bid rotation or prioritize incumbents to allocate contracts. However, establishing a link between observed allocation patterns and firm conduct has been difficult: there are cost-based competitive explanations for such patterns. We...

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Revealing Corruption : Firm and Worker Level Evidence from Brazil

Colonnelli, Emanuele; Lagaras, Spyridon; Ponticelli, Jacopo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study how the disclosure of corrupt practices affects the growth of firms involved in illegal interactions with the 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...

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Output Effects of Government Purchases

Barro, Robert J. - 1980

Because of a small direct negative effect on private spending, temporary variations in government purchases as in wartime, would have a strong positive effect on aggregate demand. Intertemporal substitution effects would direct work and production toward these periods where output was valued...

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The Allocation of Authority in Organizations : A Field Experiment with Bureaucrats

Bandiera, Oriana - 2020

We design a field experiment to study how the allocation of authority between frontline procurement officers and their monitors affects performance both directly and through the response to incentives. In collaboration with the government of Punjab, Pakistan, we shift authority from monitors to...

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The Impact of Industry Consolidation on Government Procurement : Evidence from Department of Defense Contracting

Carril, Rodrigo - 2018

We study the relationship between market structure and public procurement outcomes. In particular, we ask whether and to what extent consolidation-driven increases in industry concentration affect the way in which the government procures its goods and services. We focus on the defense industry,...

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Big G

Cox, Lydia - 2020

Big G typically refers to aggregate government spending on a homogeneous good. In this paper, we open up this construct by analyzing the entire universe of procurement contracts of the US government and establish five facts. First, government spending is granular, that is, it is concentrated in...

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Rules, Discretion, and Corruption in Procurement : Evidence from Italian Government Contracting

Decarolis, Francesco - 2020

The benefits of bureaucratic discretion depend on the extent to which it is used for public benefit versus exploited for private gain. We study the relationship between discretion and corruption in Italian government procurement auctions, using a confidential database of firms and procurement...

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Gender and Bureaucratic Corruption : Evidence from Two Countries

Decarolis, Francesco; Fisman, Raymond; Pinotti, Paolo; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We examine the correlation between gender and bureaucratic corruption using two distinct datasets, one from Italy and a second from China. In each case, we find that women are far less likely to be investigated for corruption than men. In our Italian data, female procurement officials are 34...

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