The third chapter, co-authored with Gyula Seres, delves into the efficiency of mechanism design in the field of public procurement auctions. Using a novel dataset with public contracts for highway construction in Poland, we analyze effects of screening, i.e. rejections of offers that do not...

On 1 January 1999, four major reforms took effect in Poland in the areas of health, education, pensions and local administration. After 20 years, only in the last case does the original structural design remain essentially unchanged. We examine the implications of this reform from the...