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

We analyse procurement auctions in which sellers are distinguished on the basis of the ratios of quality per unit of …

The objective of this article is to provide the first ever overview of joint cross-border procurement contracts …

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

To the extent that the federal procurement process features prominently in the Government’s plan to slow the pace of … professionals to practice sustainable procurement. The paper offers a list of key sustainable procurement vocabulary and introduces … progress up the learning curve of sustainable procurement implementation.The paper also highlights a number of existing tools …

for private gain. We study the relationship between discretion and corruption in Italian government procurement auctions …, using a confidential database of firms and procurement officials investigated for corruption by Italian enforcement … officials who are themselves investigated for corruption, they are used less often in procurement administrations in which at …

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 …

improvement and introduction of innovations, this text offers information on defense procurement recently undertaken and analyzes …

procurement auction formats can take advantage of bidders' willingness-to-pay-willingness-to-accept disparity. In a laboratory … buyer. These results support and generalize findings on sales auctions. However, not all of our findings on procurement … auctions mirror findings on sales auctions. Bidders overbid in sealed-bid procurement auctions, which does not mirror the …

in the context of the US government’s procurement of R&D. We link tender, contract, patent, and office records to the … identity of the officer responsible for the procurement process to estimate how workload in the federal acquisition unit … officer is exposed to a declining workload. In our sample, an additional contracting officer in the procurement unit, holding …