Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

This dissertation consists of three essays that examine how institutional and market factors affect the efficiency of public procurement systems. In the first c

United States federal procurement constitutes 25% of government spending and 6% of Gross Domestic Product. This dissertation addresses three questions in public

"The separate essays in this volume summarize earlier RAND reports and reprint articles that have appeared in the professional literature"--Pref.

This book explores Public Procurement novelties and challenges in an interdisciplinary way. The process whereby the public sector awards contracts to companies

Abstract: In this dissertation I study two topics in public procurement. There are two potential sources of inefficiencies. Firstly, from the supply side, when