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Design of Public Procurement Auctions : Evidence from Cleaning Contracts

Hyytinen, Ari - 2015

We compare beauty contests with first-price sealed-bid and scoring auctions, using data on public procurement of cleaning services in Swedish municipalities. The lowest submitted and winning bids are similar in all auction designs despite a higher price sensitivity of procurement bureaucrats in...

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Renegotiation of Public Contracts : An Empirical Analysis

Decarolis, Francesco - 2019

We exploit a large dataset of contracts for public works awarded in Italy between 2000 and 2007 to document two empirical facts about time and cost renegotiations. First, although both types of renegotiations are systematic, their correlation is nearly zero. Second, several factors typically...

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Decentralization and Public Procurement Performance : New Evidence from Italy

Olga, Chiapinelli - 2017

We exploit a new dataset based on EU procurement award notices to investigate the relationship between the degree of centralization of public procurement and its performance. We focus on the case of Italy, where all levels of government, along with a number of public institutions, are involved...

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Court Efficiency and Procurement Performance

Coviello, Decio - 2014

Disputes over penalties for breach of contract are often solved in court. A simple model shows how inefficient courts may induce public buyers to refrain from enforcing penalties for late delivery to avoid litigation, inducing sellers to delay. Using a large dataset on Italian public...

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Corruption and Military Spending

Gupta, Sanjeev - 2006

Anecdotal evidence relates corruption with high levels of military spending. This paper tests empirically whether such … the period 1985-98, The association between military spending and corruption is ascertained by using panel regression … techniques. The results suggest that corruption is indeed associated with higher military spending as a share of both GDP and …

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Corruption risk and education at regional level

Tóth, István János; Hajdu, Miklós - 2023

In this study, we investigate the correlation between corruption risk and the level of education in European sub … educational attainment is associated with lower corruption risk and a higher level of control of corruption, indicating that … better-educated locals may force authorities to limit corruption risk as they have less tolerance for corrupt behavior. In …

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Corruption and firm growth: evidence from the BEEPS

Gramatki, Iulian - In: Empirical economic research using the matching estimator, (pp. 81-120). 2016

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Political and economic incentives during an anti-corruption crackdown

Di Tella, Rafael; Schargrodsky, Ernesto - In: Corrupt exchanges : empirical themes in the politics …, (pp. 118-134). 2002

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Indicators of corruption in public procurement : the example of Russian regions

Balsevich, Anna; Podkolzina, Elena - 2014

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Leaders' impact on public spending priorities: The case of the German Laender

Hayo, Bernd; Neumeier, Florian - 2012

We examine determinants of the composition of public expenditure in the German Laender (states) over the period 1993-2008, as the Laender exhibit a high degree of institutional and political homogeneity and are endowed with extensive fiscal competences. Our prime contribution is an investigation...

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