Introduction / Nicola Dimitri, Gustavo Piga and Giancarlo Spagnolo -- The variety of procurement practice : evidence … from public procurement / Laura Carpineti, Gustavo Piga and Matteo Zanza -- General strategic principles -- When should … procurement be centralized? / Nicola Dimitri, Federico Dini and Gustavo Piga -- Procurement contracting strategies / Gian Luigi …

Chapter 1: Introducing Public Procurement -- Chapter 2: Public Values in Procurement -- Chapter 3: Public Procurement … Law in the European Union -- Chapter 4: Organizing Public Procurement -- Chapter 5: Public Procurement Policy and … procurement, providing insight into the ‘how’ of contemporary procurement in the public sector. The authors use theories and …

. Finally, frameworks for auction-based and posted price request-exchange mechanisms are presented. All mechanisms are tested …

analysts of telecommunications and the European auction experience, all but one presented at a November 2001 CESifo conference … conference. The essays show the interconnectedness of two important and productive areas of modern economics, auction theory and … examine questions of auction design and efficiency and convincingly explain the enormous variation of revenues in different …