Bureaucratic Competence and Procurement Outcomes

Decarolis, Francesco; Giuffrida, Leonardo M.; Iossa, Elisabetta; Mollisi, Vincenzo; Spagnolo, Giancarlo

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3505848

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“…The persistency of the competence measures is evident for the case of the four agencies shown in Figure 3. An in depth analysis of this aspect is presented in an earlier NBER WP Decarolis et al [2018]. An alternative strategy exploiting long run changes is described when introducing the robustness checks.…”

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Bureaucratic Competence and Procurement Outcomes

Decarolis

Giuffrida

Iossa

et al. 2020

The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization

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To what extent does a more competent public bureaucracy contribute to better economic outcomes? We address this question in the context of the US federal procurement of services and works, by combining contract-level data on procurement performance and bureau-level data on competence and workforce characteristics. We use the death occurrences of specific types of employees as instruments and find that an increase in bureau competence causes a significant and economically important reduction in (a) time delays, (b) cost overruns, and (c) number of renegotiations. Cooperation within the office appears to be a key driver of the findings. (JEL D73, H11, H57, L26).

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Bureaucratic Competence and Procurement Outcomes

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Giuffrida

Iossa

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The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization

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“…In cases where more comprehensive data are available and used, often the auction mechanism is non-standard (see Ferraz et al 2016 for Brazil and Lee 2017 for Korea), or the data are limited in other ways, such as lacking information on all the bids (e.g. Decarolis et al 2018 for the US). The richest data (aside ours) concern Lithuania (Baltrunaite 2018) and Russia (Best et al 2018 andVitalijs 2017), but even in those, and in all the large data sets we are aware of, information on (or a good proxy for) potential bidders is missing.…”

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Anatomy of Public Procurement

Jääskeläinen¹,

Tukiainen

2019

SSRN Journal

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“…They conclude that passive waste accounts for 83% of the total waste of spending on public services. Recent studies (Coviello and Gagliarducci, 2017; Best et al , 2017; Decarolis et al , 2018) stress the importance of bureaucratic characteristics in accounting for passive waste such as the level of cooperation within the office, office tenure and level of effectiveness. Two implications are immediate.…”

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The impact of e-procurement on institutional quality

Mélon

Spruk

2020

JOPP

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Purpose Because of the renewed interest in public purchasing and the strategic use of public funds under the requirements of sustainable development, the question arose once again as to how to curb the fall of institutional quality once criteria other than price are inserted into the decision-making in public purchasing. E-procurement has been repeatedly named as one of the most efficient tools to that effect and the present paper sets out to discover whether the implementation of e-procurement in a particular country per se entails also higher institutional quality, allowing for a wider implementation of green and sustainable procurement at the national, regional and municipal level without the fear of worsening the country’s institutional quality. By analyzing the implementation of e-procurement in Denmark, the Netherlands and in Portugal, this paper aims to verify the hypothesis that the implementation of e-procurement implies better institutions in terms of public purchasing. As such, the conclusions will be used in further research on the prerequisites for a successful implementation of green public procurement across the European Union. Design/methodology/approach Gathering data on institutional quality of three early e-procurement adopters (Denmark, the Netherlands and Portugal) allows for comparison of institutional quality pre- and post-e-procurement implementation. By using difference-in-differences comparison the paper seeks to answer the question how doesmandatory e-procurement influence institutional quality on the national level. Findings The paper finds that the reform is generally associated with a relatively stronger control of corruption in the Netherlands and Denmark, while a similar reform in Portugal failed to translate into a stronger control of corruption. Furthermore, while using the quality of regulation as a dependent variable, a positive and robust effect on the quality of regulation in Denmark was shown, while the quality of reputation in the Netherlands and Portugal declined in the post-reform period, with the drop in the quality of regulation in Portugal being considerably greater, a two-fold higher amount than the estimated drop in the Netherlands. The paper suggests that in spite of the same aims, the reform yielded substantially different or even opposing effects compared to Denmark. Research limitations/implications By examining three examples of early adopters, further research with broader impact is needed to deduce general implications for e-procurement implementation. Furthermore, implementation of e-procurement at the regional or local level can also yield distinct results. Social implications Understanding the actual impact of e-procurement on institutional quality is indispensable for further study on the matter. The present study argues that e-procurement needs to be accompanied by additional measures or variables to yield a positive impact on institutional quality in public procurement. Originality/value As to originality, the present paper uses a law and economics approach, originating or better said drawing motivation from green public procurement concerns, trying to provide an insight in terms of tools that can be used to eliminate concerns regarding institutional quality when implementing green public procurement practices.

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Bureaucratic Competence and Procurement Outcomes

Cited by 22 publications

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Bureaucratic Competence and Procurement Outcomes

Bureaucratic Competence and Procurement Outcomes

Anatomy of Public Procurement

The impact of e-procurement on institutional quality

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