Handbook of Procurement

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List of figures; List of tables; Part I. Preliminaries: 1. Introduction Nicola Dimitri, Gustavo Piga and Giancarlo Spagnolo; 2. The variety of procurement practice: evidence from public procurement Laura Carpineti, Gustavo Piga and Matteo Zanza; Part II. General Strategic Principles: 3. When should procurement be centralized? Federico Dini, Nicola Dimitri and Gustavo Piga; 4. Procurement contracting strategies Gian Luigi Albano, Giacomo Calzolari, Federico Dini, Elisabetta Iossa and Giancarlo Spagnolo; 5. Incentives and award procedures: competitive tendering vs. negotiations in procurement Patrick Bajari and Steven Tadelis; Part III. Competitive Tendering Strategies: 6. Information and competitive tendering Gian Luigi Albano, Nicola Dimitri, Riccardo Pacini and Giancarlo Spagnolo; 7. Division in lots and competition in procurement Veronika Grimm, Riccardo Pacini, Giancarlo Spagnolo and Matteo Zanza; 8. Multi-contract tendering procedures and package bidding in procurement Nicola Dimitri, Riccardo Pacini, Marco Pagnozzi and Giancarlo Spagnolo; 9. Innovative dynamic auctions in procurement Lawrence Ausubel and Peter Cramton; Part IV. Attracting and Screening Participants: 10. Business strategies for e-procurement (B2B) platforms Bruno Jullien; 11. Fostering participation Gian Luigi Albano, Nicola Dimitri, Isabelle Perrigne and Gustavo Piga; 12. Scoring rules Federico Dini, Riccardo Pacini and Tommaso Valletti; 13. Managing risky bids Andreas Engel, Juan José Ganuza, Esther Hauk and Achim Wambach; Part V. Preventing Collusion and Corruption: 14. Preventing collusion in procurement Gian Luigi Albano, Paolo Buccirossi, Giancarlo Spagnolo and Matteo Zanza; 15. Bidding rings and the design of anti-collusive measures for auctions and procurement William E. Kovacic, Robert C. Marshall, Leslie M. Marx and Matthew E. Raiff; 16. Preventing corruption in procurement Yvan Lengwiler and Elmar Wolfstetter; Part VI. Dynamic Forces and Innovation: 17. Managing dynamic procurement Tracy R. Lewis and Huseyin Yildirim; 18. Designing feedback mechanisms for e-procurement platforms Chrysanthos Dellarocas, Federico Dini and Giancarlo Spagnolo; 19. Procurement and innovation Luis Cabral, Guido Cozzi, Vincenzo Denicolò, Gustavo Piga, Giancarlo Spagnolo and Matteo Zanza.