pt. 1. Supporting social considerations via public procurement -- pt. 2. Lots, the economic and legal challenges of centralized procurement -- pt. 3. Innovation through innovative partnerships -- pt. 4. Green public procurement.

pt. 1. Competitive dialogue and contractual design fostering innovation and needs analysis -- pt. 2. Separation of selection and award criteria, including exclusion of reputation indicators like references to experience, performance and CVs from award criteria -- pt. 3. Re-tendering a contract...

<i> Sull'irrilevanza dell'indipendenza delle Banche centrali </i> (di Gustavo Piga) - ABSTRACT: In this paper we take another look at the literature on central bank independence. We show that the representative-agent approach to monetary policy is seriously flawed and should not be trusted upon to...

A companion volume to the International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption published in 2006, the specially commissioned papers in Volume Two present some of the best policy-oriented research in the field. They stress the institutional roots of corruption and include new research on topics...

In this paper we try to construct an hypothesis as to why, as data seem to show, countries that adopt more "transparent procurement", as calculated by the share of tender advertised publicly, are also the ones where corruption is considered more pervasive. We describe an economy where in...