This study empirically investigates the impact of public procurement regulation quality on the competition for tenders … levels of competition and cost-effectiveness. Improved regulation quality significantly increases the number of bidders and …

This paper empirically investigates the impact of public procurement regulation quality on competition and cost … quality. Better quality scores are associated with higher levels of competition and cost-effectiveness. Improved regulation … in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and Macedonia, the paper exhibits positive effects of improved regulation …

economic performance of the Union. Its regulation is thus conceived as a priority. Further, the creation of an EU-wide level … vigorous competition, is menaced by the immunity from competition constraints of some public behaviours. In this research we … going to evaluate the adequacy of not submitting certain public activities to the EU Competition law. Then, some …

on actual competition and contract outcomes are ambiguous. We pool a decade of US federal procurement data to shed light …