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 …

procurement auction with asymmetric bidders. We adopt a constrained (piecewise linear) strategy equilibrium concept and estimate … difference between the winning firm and the most efficient bidding firm. We also compare the expected procurement costs under two … different auction formats. The data is collected from procurement auctions of road painting in Sweden during 1993-99. The …

When procurement contracts are awarded through competitive tendering participating firms commit ex ante to fulfil a set …. We consider a stylized repeated procurement framework in which a buyer awards a contract over time to two firms with …

I compare an auction and a tournament in a procurement setting where a noncontractible signal about the quality that …

We consider a multi-dimensional procurement problem in which sellers have private information about their costs and … Bayesian procurement mechanism that implements the efficient allocation under the constraint that sellers are protected by …

We contribute to the literature on the optimal design of auction mechanisms for the procurement of nature conservation … decreases with repetition. Theory predicts that repetition facilitates collusion among sellers in procurement auctions, while …

We empirically investigate the effect of procurement oversight on contract outcomes. In particular, we stress a …

The procurement of complex projects is often plagued by large cost overruns. One important reason for these additional …