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 …

question in the context of the US federal procurement of services and works, by combining contract-level data on procurement …

&D investment, and derive predictions on the effects of trust and competition on suppliers' investment and buyers' procurement … - but also with more competitive procurement: trust and rents from reduced supplier competition in the procurement process …

Centralization of public procurement can lower prices for the government's direct purchase of goods and services. This … paper focuses on indirect savings. Public administrations that do not procure directly through a central procurement agency …