This paper deals with a Niskanen type of public-procurement agency. It is shown that the procurement game should be … which refers to both investment and production. Welfare-optimal procurement of the project can be attained under relatively …

A well-functioning bureaucracy is a precondition for efficient public goods provision. However, bureaucratic decision … outcomes. We focus on a major public sector activity and survey more than 900 real-life procurement officials in Finland and …, procurers value a certain degree of competition, while litigation concerns and regional favoritism play only a small role. The …

A well-functioning bureaucracy is a precondition for efficient public goods provision. However, bureaucratic decision … outcomes. We focus on a major public sector activity and survey more than 900 real-life procurement officials in Finland and …, procurers value a certain degree of competition, while litigation concerns and regional favoritism play only a small role …

While effective bureaucracy is crucial for state capacity, its decision-making remains a black box. We elicit … preferences of 900+ real-world public procurement officials in Finland and Germany. This is an important pursuit as they report … importance of multiple features of procurement outcomes. Officials prioritize avoiding unexpectedly high prices but not seeking …

While effective bureaucracy is crucial for state capacity, its decision-making remains a black box. We elicit … preferences of 900+ real-world public procurement officials in Finland and Germany. This is an important pursuit as they report … importance of multiple features of procurement outcomes. Officials prioritize avoiding unexpectedly high prices but not seeking …

A well-functioning bureaucracy is a precondition for efficient public goods provision. However, bureaucratic decision … outcomes. We focus on a major public sector activity and survey more than 900 real-life procurement officials in Finland and …, procurers value a certain degree of competition, while litigation concerns and regional favoritism play only a small role. The …

and rule-based auction procurement procedures. We show that adopting a two stage approach in which bureaucrats first … corruption risks often observed in negotiated procedures. For rule-based procedures, we show that a "third-price lottery" in …

deficiencies of the current procurement processes and control mechanisms, (b) recommending appropriate corruption prevention …This paper has adopted the exploratory case study method of analyzing a few recent cases of public procurement … following issues: (a) how do irregularities and instances of corruption persist in spite of safeguards and thereby find the …