Collusion likely has adverse effects on social welfare. In this paper, we study collusion in the e-procurement market …

that might fail to deliver. The buyer conducts a procurement auction to determine contract suppliers and can choose between … plays an important role in procurement practice but attracted little attention in the academic analysis of procurement … auctions. Academic research on multi-sourcing procurement auction typically analyzes these auctions as stand-alone events. In …

This paper analyses the impact of favouritism and corruption in procurement auctions in an emerging economy. There are …

procurement. Our identification strategy leverages a legislative change in Italy that mandated centralized purchases for a sub …

In public sector procurement, social welfare often depends on the time taken to complete the contract. A leading …

Discriminatory programs that favor local and small firms in government procurement are common in many countries. This … paper studies the long-run impact of procurement discrimination on market structure and future competition in industries … where learning-by-doing makes incumbent firms more efficient over time. We consider a sequential procurement design problem …

Public procurement contracts (PPCs) of goods, services and works is about one tenth of global gross domestic product …

Procurement auctions that assume independent private values (IPV) provide a benchmark for analysis that is readily … expected quantities sold and selling prices of some endogenous-quantity procurement auction formats. The resulting equilibrium …