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

, appropriately designed reputation mechanisms actually stimulate entry. Since quality increases but not prices, our data also suggest …This paper reports results from a laboratory experiment exploring the relationship between reputation and entry in … in private procurement, may hinder entry by new (smaller or foreign) firms in public procurement markets. Our results …

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 …Many quality dimensions are hard to contract upon and are at risk of degradation when services are procured rather than …

When procurement contracts are awarded through competitive tendering participating firms commit ex ante to fulfil a set … opportunistically delivering lower quality standards. In order to deter ex post moral hazard, buyers may use different strategies … depending on the extent to which quality dimensions are contractible, that is, verifiable by contracting parties and by courts …

This paper analyzes a procurement setting with two identical firms and stochastic innovations. In contrast to the … previous literature, I show that a procurer who cannot charge entry fees may prefer a fixed-prize tournament to a first …

When procurement contracts are incomplete, they are frequently changed after the contract is awarded to the lowest …

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 and procurement managers. Due to anti-corruption laws, agents cannot sell contracts or positions that they are …

on AM in the field of industrial procurement remains scarce. This is surprising, given that AM is not only changing … traditional procurement categories and creating new ones (comprising printers, powder raw materials, data and the associated … (transport, stocks) of supply chains. In addition, AM may resurrect the old procurement question of ‘make or buy’. Current …