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For governments procuring innovation, one choice is whether to specify desired products (a "Conventional" approach) or allow firms to suggest ideas (an "Open" approach). Using a U.S. Air Force R&D grant program, where Op...Read more...
Sabrina T. Howell, Jason Rathje, John Van Reenen and Jun Wong
13 April 2021
We study the impact of politicians' tenure in office on the outcomes of public procurement. To this purpose, we match a data set on the politics of Italian municipal governments to a data set on the procurement auctions ...Read more...
Decio Coviello and Stefano Gagliarducci
26 January 2017
We run a regression discontinuity design analysis to document the causal effect of increasing buyers' discretion on procurement outcomes in a large database for public works in Italy. Works with a value above a given thr...Read more...
Decio Coviello, Andrea Guglielmo and Giancarlo Spagnolo
26 April 2016