We study the effects of federal purchases on firm investment using a novel panel dataset that combines federal … procurement contracts in the United States with key financial firm-level information. Using panel fixed-effect models, propensity … firms’ capital investment by 10 to 13 cents. In line with the financial accelerator model, our findings indicate that the …

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 … agreement, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP), which would (among other things) address barriers to …

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 …

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 …

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 … that the new law, by abandoning basic principles of sound procurement, raises real risks in the post-Katrina relief effort …

This study provides the first quantification of buyers' role in the outcome of R&D procurement contracts. We combine …

This paper examines the investment and financial decisions of a sample of 92 EU regulated utilities, taking into … account key institutional features of EU public utilities, such as: a) regulation by agencies with various degrees of … independence matters for both investment and financial decisions. Investment increases under an Independent Regulatory Agency (IRA …