DECENTRALIZATION AND PUBLIC PROCUREMENT PERFORMANCE: NEW EVIDENCE FROM ITALY.
We exploit a new dataset based on European Union (EU) procurement award notices to investigate the relationship between the degree of centralization of public procurement and its performance. We focus on the case of Italy, where all levels of government, along with a number of other public instituti...
| Publicado en: | Economic Inquiry Vol. 58; no. 2; pp. 856 - 881 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Apr2020
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