repeated auctions in which these findings are consistent with time in office progressively leading to collusion between … match a data set on public procurement auctions by Italian municipalities to a data set on the politics of municipal … firm is awarded repeated auctions. We make use of a quasi-experimental change in the electoral law (the introduction of a …

data set on the politics of Italian municipal governments to a data set on the procurement auctions they administered. In … local and that the same firm is awarded repeated auctions. Taken together, our estimates are informative of the possibility … that time in offce progressively leads to collusion between government officials and a few favored local bidders. Other …