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Results Through Transparency: Does Publicity Lead to Better Procurement? - Working Paper 437

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  • Charles Kenny and Ben Crisman

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Governments buy about $9 trillion worth of goods and services a year, and their procurement policies are increasingly subject to international standards and institutional regulation including the WTO Plurilateral Agreement on Government Procurement, Open Government Partnership commitments and International Financial Institution procurement rules. These standards focus on transparency and open competition as key tools to improve outcomes. While there is some evidence on the impact of competition on prices in government procurement, there is less on the impact of specific procurement rules including transparency on competition or procurement outcomes. Using a database of World Bank financed contracts, we explore the impact of a relatively minor procurement rule governing advertising on competition using regression discontinuity design and matching methods.

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  • Charles Kenny and Ben Crisman, 2016. "Results Through Transparency: Does Publicity Lead to Better Procurement? - Working Paper 437," Working Papers 437, Center for Global Development.
    • Handle: RePEc:cgd:wpaper:437
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    1. Tania Ghossein & Bernard Hoekman & Anirudh Shingal, 2021. "Public Procurement, Regional Integration, and the Belt and Road Initiative [How China Got Sri Lanka to Cough Up a Port]," The World Bank Research Observer, World Bank, vol. 36(2), pages 131-163.
    2. Dávid-Barrett, Elizabeth & Fazekas, Mihály, 2020. "Anti-corruption in aid-funded procurement: Is corruption reduced or merely displaced?," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 132(C).
    3. Bernard Hoekman & Bedri Kamil Onur Taş, 2022. "Procurement policy and SME participation in public purchasing," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 58(1), pages 383-402, January.
    4. Yugank Goyal, 2019. "How Governments Promote Monopolies: Public Procurement in India," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 78(5), pages 1135-1169, November.
    5. Ecaterina Milica DOBROTA & Roxana SARBU & Silvius STANCIU, 2022. "The SMEs Accessibility to Public Procurement in Romania. The Grounds for Bids Rejection," Economics and Applied Informatics, "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, issue 2, pages 68-75.

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    Keywords

    procurement; advertising; transparency; competition;
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    JEL classification:

    • H57 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Procurement
    • D40 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - General
    • D73 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption

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