Centralization of public procurement can lower prices for the government's direct purchase of goods and services. This … paper focuses on indirect savings. Public administrations that do not procure directly through a central procurement agency …

procurement. Our identification strategy leverages a legislative change in Italy that mandated centralized purchases for a sub …-set of devices. The statutory centralization generated a reduction in prices and an increase in delivery times for …

investigate the impact this change in procurement contracts has on efficiency. Focusing on coal mines, we find that those selling …

-agent framework, it analyzes two alternative policy-decision schemes - "decentralization" and "centralization" - when "knowledge …

federalism in which centralization is less likely to occur where budget referendums are possible. The reason for this result is … that budget referendums reduce the extent to which pro-centralization regions can commit to a low level of spending … delegating the centralization choice to elected poli-cymakers. In addition, it reduces the ability of higher level policy …