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 …

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

This paper studies the effect of soft-budget constraints in a pure adverse selection model of monopoly regulation. We …-up allows governments to avoid re-funding moneyloosing firms and that welfare is larger than under traditional regulation where … governments commits to both investment and operation cash-flows …

This paper analyses the impact of reform and different regulation regimes on the effectiveness of procurement at a … large state university in the period from 2008 to 2012. We evaluate the impact on the procurement effectiveness parameters … of two significant changes in the public procurement regulations: transfer to electronic auctions from 2010 under the …

Under what conditions does cost-of-service regulation lead firms to distort costs? This paper analyzes changes in fuel … procurement practices by coal- and natural gas-fired electricity generating plants in the United States following state …-level legislation that ended cost-of-service regulation among investor-owned electric utilities in the late 1990s. I construct a …

outcomes in deregulated markets. These market failures could be the result of bad regulation, bad competition law enforcement …