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

Charles Kenny
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No 437, Working Papers from Center for Global Development

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: procurement; advertising; transparency; competition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D40 D73 H57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2016-09
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