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Strategic Procurement, Openness and Market Structure

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  • Maria Garcia-Alonso

    (University of Kent)

  • Paul Levine

    (University of Surrey)

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We examine strategic procurement behaviour by governments and its effect on market structure in sectors, such as defence, where the government is the dominant consumer. In a world economy with trade between producers, and between producers and non-producers, we use a modified Dixit-Stiglitz utility function with an indepen- dent taste for variety. Governments can, in effect, choose the number of domestic firms and their size by adjusting the procurement price. Unlike the standard model with no independent taste for variety and no external sector of non-producers, there are incentives for subsidies, openness impacts on industrial structure and there are potential gains from procurement coordination between producer countries.

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  • Maria Garcia-Alonso & Paul Levine, 2004. "Strategic Procurement, Openness and Market Structure," School of Economics Discussion Papers 0904, School of Economics, University of Surrey.
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    procurement; openness; market structure; defence and pharmaceutical sectors;
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    • F12 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
    • H56 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - National Security and War
    • L10 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - General

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