Handbook of procurement

Introduction / Nicola Dimitri, Gustavo Piga and Giancarlo Spagnolo -- The variety of procurement practice : evidence from public procurement / Laura Carpineti, Gustavo Piga and Matteo Zanza -- General strategic principles -- When should procurement be centralized? / Nicola Dimitri, Federico Dini and Gustavo Piga -- Procurement contracting strategies / Gian Luigi Albano, Giacomo Calzolari, Federico Dini, Elisabetta Iossa and Giancarlo Spagnolo -- Incentives and award procedures : competitive tendering vs. negotiations in procurement / Patrick Bajari and Steve Tadelis -- Competitive tendering strategies -- Information and competitive tendering / Gian Luigi Albano, Nicola Dimitri, Riccardo Pacini, Giancarlo Spagnolo -- Division in lots and competition in procurement / Veronika Grimm, Riccardo Pacini, Giancarlo Spagnolo and Matteo Zanza -- Multi-contract tendering procedures and package bidding in procurement / Nicola Dimitri, Riccardo Pacini, Marco Pagnozzi and Giancarlo Spagnolo -- Dynamic auctions in procurement / Lawrence M. Ausubel and Peter Cramton -- Attracting and screening participants -- Pricing and other business strategies for e-procurement platforms / Bruno Jullien -- Fostering participation / Gian Luigi Albano, Nicola Dimitri, Isabelle Perrigne and Gustavo Piga -- Scoring rules / Federico Dini, Riccardo Pacini, Tommaso Valletti -- Managing risky bids / Andreas Engel, Juan-Jose Ganuza, Esther Hauk and Achim Wambach -- Preventing collusion and corruption -- Preventing collusion in procurement / Gian Luigi Albano, Paolo Buccirossi, Giancarlo Spagnolo and Matteo Zanza -- Bidding rings and the design of anti-collusive measures for auctions and procurements / William E. Kovacic, Robert C. Marshall, Leslie M. Marx and Matthew E. Raiff -- Corruption in procurement auctions / Yvan Lengwiler and Elmar Wolfstetter -- Dynamic forces and innovation -- Managing dynamic procurements / Tracy R. Lewis and Huseyin Yildirim -- Designing reputation mechanisms / Chrysanthos Dellarocas, Federico Dini and Giancarlo Spagnolo -- Procuring innovations / Luis Cabral, Guido Cozzi, Vincenzo Denicolo, Giancarlo Spagnolo and Matteo Zanza