This study empirically investigates the impact of public procurement regulation quality on the competition for tenders and the cost-effectiveness of awarded contracts, by employing the World Bank's Benchmarking Public Procurement and EuroPAM Public Procurement quality scores. Using extensive...

The revised World Trade Organization (WTO) Government Procurement Agreement (GPA), which came into force on April 6, 2014, provides a limited number of WTO Members with a framework for ensuring that the tenders scheduled under the Appendix to WTO GPA are conducted in a competitive,...

This paper empirically investigates the impact of public procurement regulation quality on competition and cost-effectiveness. I employ the World Bank's Benchmarking Public Procurement quality scores. Using extensive data about public procurement in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and...