This paper identifies the positive regulatory externalities that can be realised from the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (WTO GPA), Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) and other international conventions with public procurement provisions. It submits that despite the multiplicity of...

This article identifies the positive regulatory externalities that can be realised from the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (“WTO GPA”), Regional Trade Agreements (“RTAs”) and other international conventions with public procurement provisions. It submits that despite the...

Over ten years after the launching of the Single Market the EC?s directives aimed to the liberalization of government procurement remain largely unimplemented. This paper analyses the consequences on the pattern of specialization, on welfare and on income inequalities of the persistence of a...