This paper stresses the negative impact that the excessive levels of transparency imposed by public procurement rules can have on competition for public contracts and, more generally, on the likelihood of cartelisation of the markets where public procurement takes place. The paper critically...

Spanish Abstract: El análisis económico del derecho de la contratación pública ha dado lugar a importantes contribuciones relacionadas con el diseño de los contratos desde el punto de vista de los incentivos de los licitadores, así como a avances en la formalización de estudios...

Este artículo reflexiona críticamente acerca de las posibilidades de controlar el comportamiento de mercado del comprador público mediante la aplicación de las normas comunitarias de defensa de la competencia y de contratación pública, con un énfasis particular en su aplicación por la...

This piece reflects on the role of public procurement regulation in the face of a situation generating an extremely urgent need for the public sector to buy additional supplies and equipment, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Counterintuitively, at a time of heightened public expenditure, public...

This paper discusses the main approaches to the regulation of outsourcing to date, taking in particular the perspective of incomplete and relational contracts. The paper is the foundation of a larger project on the reorientation of outsourcing and its regulation in the light of recent...

We study empirically the determinants of public tomb prices in a sample of Spanish towns. We document strong evidence in favor that cemeteries act as local monopolies that use second degree price discrimination to maximize profits. Additionally we report that local cemetery prices react to...

This paper looks at how the EU public procurement rules have shown a tendency to permanently expand their scope of application, both within and outside the EU. Inside the EU, the expansion has primarily resulted from blurred coverage boundaries and a creeping application outside their explicit...

This chapter assesses the use of public procurement to enforce labour standards from a competition and State aid perspective, and concentrates on the establishment of contract compliance clauses under the rules of Article 26 of Directive 2004/18/EC and Article 70 of Directive 2014/24/EU and in...

This paper provides a critical assessment of the Feasibility study concerning the actual implementation of a joint cross-border procurement procedure by public buyers from different Member States prepared by BBG-SKI for the European Commission. The paper submits that the study provides some...