In its recent Green Deal, the Commission reconfirms the importance of public procurement law as an instrument to realise sustainability goals. Public procurement regulation has indeed opened up to more ‘noble’ considerations beyond its traditional principles of non‑discrimination,...

Mit dem Gesetzentwurf für eine "Modernisierung des Vergaberechtes" möchte die Landesregierung von Mecklenburg-Vorpommern sicherstellen, dass zukünftig nur noch solche Unternehmen öffentliche Aufträge erhalten, die bei der Auftragsdurchführung ihren Beschäftigten mindestens die Löhne und...

We examine a new data set of laws and practices governing public procurement, as well as procurement outcomes, in 187 countries. We measure regulation as restrictions on discretion of the procuring agents. We find that laws and practices are highly correlated with each other across countries,...

This paper examines bidding in auctions for state highway construction contracts on Long Island in the early 1980s, in order to determine whether bid rigging occurred. Detection of collusion is possible because of limited participation in the collusive scheme. The paper looks at differences in...

FinTech -- along with the blockchain, other distributed ledger, smart contract, and tokenization usually assumed to accompany it -- could change the way governments procure goods and services. Procurement authorities and procurement law can play a vital role in the development of FinTech. They...