Understanding Home Bias in Procurement
Are governments locally biased when buying goods and services? Can this home bias explain the low integration of procurement markets? Using one million procurement contracts awarded in France and Spain, this paper explores whether the home bias follows the government's geographical scope: national governments have a national bias, while subnational governments have a local bias. The relative home bias across governments is estimated by comparing how local and non-local establishments sell the same product to national and subnational governments in the same destination. This paper finds that the governments’ home bias explains a big part of the high local concentration in procurement.
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| Format: | Working Paper biblioteca |
| Language: | English English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2023-02-27T14:40:57Z
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| Subjects: | PUBLIC PROCUREMENT, BORDER EFFECTS, ECONOMIC INTEGRATION, NATIONAL BIAS, LOCAL BIAS, LOCAL BUSINESS SUPPORT, |
| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099457302212337722/IDU01b9079cc0ec6f04cc40a4b008ee999add33a https://worldbank7-prod.atmire.com/handle/10986/39469 |
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