private procurement, may hinder entry by new firms in public procurement markets. In this paper we report results from a … laboratory experiment exploring the relationship between reputation and entry in procurement. We implement a repeated procurement …

, including ideas and research, from their strategic suppliers. A careful design of procurement policy is crucial to make … potential suppliers generate and sell the most suitable innovation. Moreover, procurement by public agencies and large firms … consider a menu of procurement methods and policies for best procuring new knowledge and innovative products, discussing their …

for the same type of procurement and in tenders for different procurement contracts. …

buyers' offers become more generous. Buyers tend to prefer penalties, which may explain why they are dominant in procurement. …

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 …

procurement. We propose a procurement model with reputation and entry assigning to the entrant a reputational advantage of varying … standard practice in private procurement, may hinder entry by new (smaller or foreign) firms in public procurement markets. Our …

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

&D investment, and derive predictions on the effects of trust and competition on suppliers’ investment and buyers’ procurement … - but also with more competitive procurement: trust and rents from reduced supplier competition in the procurement process …