Considering that about 15 percent of global gross domestic product flows through public
procurement systems, the lack of systematic evidence on what works in this field is a major …

This paper examines whether electronic procurement (e-procurement), which increases
access to information and reduces personal interactions with potentially corrupt officials …

Exploiting a unique institutional setting in Korea, this paper documents that politicians can
increase the amount of government resources allocated through their social networks to the …

We study entry and bidding patterns in sealed bid and open auctions. Using data from the
US Forest Service timber auctions, we document a set of systematic effects: sealed bid …

Bureaucrats implement policy. How important are they for a state's productivity? And do the
trade-offs between policies depend on their effectiveness? Using data on 16 million public …

We discuss the identification and estimation of discrete games of complete information.
Following Bresnahan and Reiss (1990, 1991), a discrete game is a generalization of a …

This paper examines bidding in over 1,700 knockout auctions used by a bidding cartel (or
ring) of stamp dealers in the 1990s. The knockout was conducted using a variant of the …

In public procurement, social welfare often depends on how quickly the good is delivered. A
leading example is highway construction, where slow completion inflicts a negative …

Motivated by several interesting features of the highway mowing auction data from the Texas
Department of Transportation (TDoT), we study three competing procurement auction …

This paper identifies the degree to which scientists are willing to change the direction of their
work in exchange for resources. Data from the National Institutes of Health are used to …