strategies. Using new data on U.S. firms' decisions to contract for manufacturing services from domestic or foreign suppliers, I …

Infrastructure costs in the United States are high and rising. The procurement process is one potential cost driver. In … this paper we conduct a survey of procurement practices across the 50 states. We survey both employees at each state … able to create a new dataset of procurement rules and practices across the U.S. and understand what actors on the ground …

procurement in the public sector are discussed …

We study a new market design for K-12 school broadband procurement that switched from school-specific bidding to a … procurement - the risk that providers win too few contracts to cover fixed infrastructure costs. Using a bounds approach, we show …

procurement by NGOs … procurement attracts multi-national generic suppliers and significantly reduces prices for originators and generics, compared to …

Procurement contracts are often incomplete because the initial plans and specifications are changed and refined after … and local market power, which are the focus on much of the literature on optimal procurement mechanisms, are much smaller …