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 …

, institutional constraints, critical inputs, and governance and corruption. It concludes by outlining policy options related to … institutional and regulatory reforms as well as procurement and local content. …

Regulatory efforts on both sides of the Atlantic, in anti-corruption and procurement, are become more interdependent … new directives on procurement, and the United States and Europe moved forward in negotiating a comprehensive free trade … trade in procurement. This piece reviews the T-TIP agreement's potential impact on procurement, in the near and long term …

from many industrialized and developing nations, to reform and update the UNCITRAL Model Law on Procurement of Goods … gauge whether lessons from the UNCITRAL debate may be useful for reform in the U.S. procurement system. As the essay … lessons from reforms abroad, to ensure that U.S. procurement policy draws thoughtfully upon lessons learned from other …

, including risks of corruption and risks of gross failures in best value procurement …In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. Congress passed new exceptions to U.S. procurement rules. The most important … that are an important part of the U.S. procurement system. This comment reviews that emergency legislation, and suggests …

Infrastructure costs in the United States are high and rising. The procurement process is one potential cost driver. In … this paper we conduct a survey of procurement practices across the 50 states. We survey both employees at each state … able to create a new dataset of procurement rules and practices across the U.S. and understand what actors on the ground …