In public procurement a temporal separation of award and actual contracting can frequently be observed. In this paper … we give an explanation for this institutional setting. For incomplete procurement contracts we show that such a … post-award, pre-contract rent-seeking activities also increase efficiency. This is always the case if the procurement …

This paper deals with a Niskanen type of public-procurement agency. It is shown that the procurement game should be … which refers to both investment and production. Welfare-optimal procurement of the project can be attained under relatively …

This note analyses investment and risk-taking in a simple agency model of public regulation/procurement borrowed from …

International public procurement sees low shares of cross-border purchases despite agreements against national …-border procurement. The effects are economically large, as deregulation (a one-standard deviation increase in infection rates) increases …

product, we compare procurement contracts in which the procurer is either a public administration or a private corporation. We …

We compare procurement contracts where the procurer is either a public agent or a private corporation. Using …

in the context of the US government’s procurement of R&D. We link tender, contract, patent, and office records to the … identity of the officer responsible for the procurement process to estimate how workload in the federal acquisition unit … officer is exposed to a declining workload. In our sample, an additional contracting officer in the procurement unit, holding …

's expertise when designing the project. Some implications of these results for procurement in the public sector are discussed …

The literature on public procurement pays great attention to the rules underlying tendering procedures as well as on …

and rule-based auction procurement procedures. We show that adopting a two stage approach in which bureaucrats first … corruption risks often observed in negotiated procedures. For rule-based procedures, we show that a "third-price lottery" in …