, competition and entry in procurement markets. I focus especially on public procurement, which is highly regulated for …

produced in-house. However, procurement may foster performance-improving innovation. We assemble a large data set on elderly … subjectively perceived quality of service. We estimate how procurement from private providers affects these measures using a … difference-in-difference approach. The results indicate that procurement significantly increases non-contractible quality as …

procurement. There is widespread concern among regulators that favoring suppliers with good past performance, a standard practice … in private procurement, may hinder entry by new (smaller or foreign) firms in public procurement markets. Our results …

We explore empirically the impact of buyer quality on public procurement outcomes. Using purchases data (Federal … Procurement Data System) and survey data (Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey) from US federal agencies, we find that procurement … predicts procurement performance is the perceived degree of cooperation within the unit, followed by the presence of …