US federal agency, we investigate how officer workload impacts innovation procurement outcomes. Unanticipated retirement …

This paper deals with a Niskanen type of public-procurement agency. It is shown that the procurement game should be … which refers to both investment and production. Welfare-optimal procurement of the project can be attained under relatively …

A well-functioning bureaucracy is a precondition for efficient public goods provision. However, bureaucratic decision … outcomes. We focus on a major public sector activity and survey more than 900 real-life procurement officials in Finland and …

A well-functioning bureaucracy is a precondition for efficient public goods provision. However, bureaucratic decision … outcomes. We focus on a major public sector activity and survey more than 900 real-life procurement officials in Finland and …

While effective bureaucracy is crucial for state capacity, its decision-making remains a black box. We elicit … preferences of 900+ real-world public procurement officials in Finland and Germany. This is an important pursuit as they report … importance of multiple features of procurement outcomes. Officials prioritize avoiding unexpectedly high prices but not seeking …

-based regulation policy requires the government to make use of a bureaucracy; this has a bureaucratic cost, as the bureaucracy diverts …