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data between 2008 and 2018. For construction auctions, we also rely on bid-level data to inform a regression discontinuity …
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public contract data. Employing a regression discontinuity design for close-call procurement auctions, we find that winners … impactful for survival prospects. Survivors experience no productivity premium but rather an improvement in their credit …
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public contract data. Employing a regression discontinuity design for close-call procurement auctions, we find that winners … impactful for survival prospects. Survivors experience no productivity premium but rather an improvement in their credit …
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A set-aside restricts participation in procurement contests to targeted firms. Despite being widely used, its effects on actual competition and contract outcomes are ambiguous. We pool a decade of US federal procurement data to shed light on this empirical question using a two-stage approach. To...
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A set-aside promotes a more equitable procurement process by restricting participation in government tenders to small or disadvantaged businesses. Yet its micro-effects on tender outcomes (competition and contract efficiency) and targeted firm performance entail trade-offs, which we evaluate...
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A set-aside promotes a more equitable procurement process by restricting participation in government tenders to small or disadvantaged businesses. Yet its micro-effects on tender outcomes (competition and contract efficiency) and targeted firm performance entail trade-offs, which we evaluate...
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We consider a Green Public Procurement setting where the procurer provides a bid discount to environment-friendly technologies to foster their use. We assume that, before the auction, firms may switch to green technology via a publicly observable costly investment. We show that investment acts...
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-level. This study exploits sealed-bid PPC auctions of construction works, discontinuity in bidders' win margin and firms' daily …
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The innovation of construction procurement by means of electronic reverse auctions is a controversial subject of … concerning the adoption and use of electronic reverse auctions in the light of specific features of the construction industry. A … on mutual interaction of electronic reverse auctions and long-term effects on construction project outcomes. …
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