This paper empirically investigates the effect of the competitive environment (number of participants) on the cost of procurement. We use a unique dataset provided by the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) of Turkey that covers all of the government procurement auctions for the years...

Different types of products are procured in government procurement auctions. This paper empirically analyzes the effect of competition (number of bidders) on procurement price of different types of products. In other words, we investigate the optimal number of bidders which minimizes procurement...

We empirically investigate the effect of entrants and incumbents on the efficiency of public procurement auctions. We use a unique data set that covers all Turkish public procurement auctions for the years 2004 to 2010. We find that procurement prices of auctions won by entrants are...

We present an easy-to-implement method to identify the optimal number of bidders in public procurement auctions. We examine a unique data set that covers all government procurement auctions comprising more than half a million observations. We show that there is an optimal number of bidders at...

This study empirically investigates the impact of public procurement regulation quality on the competition for tenders and the cost-effectiveness of awarded contracts, by employing the World Bank's Benchmarking Public Procurement and EuroPAM Public Procurement quality scores. Using extensive...

The revised World Trade Organization (WTO) Government Procurement Agreement (GPA), which came into force on April 6, 2014, provides a limited number of WTO Members with a framework for ensuring that the tenders scheduled under the Appendix to WTO GPA are conducted in a competitive,...

This paper empirically investigates the impact of public procurement regulation quality on competition and cost-effectiveness. I employ the World Bank's Benchmarking Public Procurement quality scores. Using extensive data about public procurement in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and...

This paper investigates effects of macroeconomic conditions in an economy on government procurement (GP) auctions. Specifically, two research questions are examined: 1) What are the eff ects of macroeconomic variables on the competitive environment (number of bidders) in GP auctions? 2) How does...

This paper investigates the relationship between the quality of regulatory policies governing public procurement and participation in public tenders by small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Using a large dataset on European procurement contracts, we find that countries with better quality...