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Impact of Public Procurement Aggregation on Competition : Risks, Rationale and Justification for the Rules in Directive 2014/24
Sanchez-Graells, Albert; Herrera Anchustegui, Ignacio - 2014
This paper assesses the risks, rationale and justification for the rules on centralisation and aggregation of public procurement in Directive 2014/24. The paper explores the justifications advanced for the aggregation of purchasing and the countervailing risks it generates. In both cases, it...
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Procurement Tools for AI Regulation by Contract. Not the Sharpest in the Shed
Sanchez-Graells, Albert - 2023
This Chapter continues unpacking the gatekeeping role assigned to the procurement function in the context of public sector digitalisation. After the analysis of procurement as a regulatory actor in https://ssrn.com/abstract=4351555, the focus is now put on the procedural and substantive...
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Constructing Rules on Exclusions (Debarment) Under a Post-Brexit Regime on Public Procurement : A Preliminary Analysis
Arrowsmith, Sue - 2020
This current initiative to reform public procurement after Brexit raises the question of how to deal with exclusions (debarment) in the UK legal system. This area has received little attention in the past but Brexit offers both more legal flexibility and a political opportunity to address the...
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Mayor’s Wage and Public Procurement
D'Andrea, Angelo - 2019
In this paper I run a regression discontinuity design analysis to document the causal effect of mayor's wage on procurement outcomes in a large data base of public procurement contracts in Italy. To identify the wage effect, I use peculiarities of the Italian legislation where mayor's...
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Rethinking Discretion in Public Procurement
Fazio, Dimas - 2022
Exploiting a rule in Brazil that waives competitive bidding for small-value purchases, I find evidence of an efficiency-quality trade-off when government agencies have more flexibility in awarding public procurement contracts. Products purchased with higher discretion are 23 percent more...
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An Economic Analysis of Debarment
Auriol, Emmanuelle - 2015
With a view to reducing the consequences of corruption in public procurement, many governments have introduced debarment of suppliers found guilty of corruption and some other forms of crime. This paper explores the market effects of debarment on public procurement. Debarment is found to make...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015220
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Transparency in Procurement by the EU Institutions
Sanchez-Graells, Albert - 2018
This paper offers a cursory overview of the rules applicable to transparency and disclosure of documents in the context of public procurement of the EU Institutions under the rules of the Financial Regulation, its Rules on Implementation, and the EU FOIA Regulation (Reg 1049/2001). The paper...
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The effects of regional subsidies to the spatial distribution of economic activity and welfare in the constructed capital model : paper for the ERSA 2010 conference, Jonkoping
Tafenau, Egle - 2010
welfare argument. Moreover, different tax systems are compared with respect to the size of the subsidy needed for achieving a … adverse effects of subsidies can at least be alleviated. A proportional subsidy to capital increases the overall capital stock …, enabling to draw utility from a wider variety of goods. However, the regional effects are different: compared to the no-subsidy …
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Study to quantify and analyse the VAT Gap in the EU Member States : 2015 Report
Barbone, Luca; Bonch-Osmolovskiy, Mikhail; Poniatowski, … - 2015
This report provides estimates of the VAT Gap for 26 EU Member States for 2013, as well as revised estimates for the period 2009-2012. It is a follow-up to the report “Study to quantify and analyse the VAT Gap in the EU-27 Member Statess, published in September 2013 (hereafter: 2013 Report),...
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2012 update report to the study to quantify and analyse the VAT gap in the EU-27 member states
Barbone, Luca; Bonch-Osmolovskiy, Mikhail; Poniatowski, … - 2014
This report provides estimates of the VAT Gap for 26 EU Member States for 2012, as well as revised estimates for the period 2009-2011. It is a follow-up to the report "Study to quantify and analyse the VAT Gap in the EU-27 Member States", published in September 2013. This update incorporates the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010422931