investigate the impact this change in procurement contracts has on efficiency. Focusing on coal mines, we find that those selling …

The World Trade Organisation Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) has created the most comprehensive plurilateral … system for procurement-related trade liberalisation. However, there has been a proliferation of free trade agreements (FTAs …) regulating public procurement liberalisation, including between GPA parties, which seek to bypass or go beyond the GPA on a …

government procurement, held at the OECD in June 1998. The publication includes submissions from 12 OECD member countries … describing the regulatory regime for procurement and the competition policy issues which have arisen. The document also includes … a background paper prepared by the OECD secretariat discussing why competition issues arise in procurement, raising the …