Tenure in Office and Public Procurement

Decio Coviello and Stefano Gagliarducci

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2017, vol. 9, issue 3, 59-105

Abstract: We study the impact of politicians' tenure in office on the outcomes of public procurement using a dataset on Italian municipal governments. To identify a causal relation, we first compare elections where the incumbent mayor barely won or barely lost another term. We then use the introduction of a two-term limit, which granted one potential extra term to mayors appointed before the reform. The main result is that an increase in tenure is associated with "worse" procurement outcomes. Our estimates are informative of the possibility that time in office progressively leads to collusion between government officials and local bidders.

JEL-codes: D72 H57 H76 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
Note: DOI: 10.1257/pol.20150426
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