, reputation, competition and entry in procurement markets. I focus especially on public procurement, which is highly regulated for …Abstract: Based on my recent work with several co-authors this paper explores the relationship between discretion … accountability and trade reasons. In Europe regulation constrains the use of past performance information to select contractors while …

reputation considerations affect firms' decisions to participate in joint projects. We show that a high quality partner may not … be preferable to a low quality partner, and that a high reputation partner is not necessarily preferable to a low … show that in contrast with projects implemented by a single firm, in the case of joint projects a firm's reputation does …

Based on the literature on public procurement regulation, we use an Agent-Based Model to assess the performance of … different selection procedures. Specifically, we aim at investigating whether and how the inclusion of reputation of firms in … the public procurement selection process affects the final cost of the contract. The model defines two types of actors: i …

resources on low quality projects at year's end. We test these predictions using data on procurement spending by the U … year-end information technology projects have substantially lower quality ratings. We also analyze the gains from allowing …

discretion over, and monitoring of, project progress. Using novel data on R&D contracts and on the geo-location and technical …

This short piece discusses recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) data chronicling an increase in the Defense …

resources and procurement managers. Due to anti-corruption laws, agents cannot sell contracts or positions that they are … connections in the presence of convex costs of networking. -- nominations ; rent-seeking ; networks ; politicians ; procurement …

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