Научный семинар ИНИИ "Buyers' ability in public procurement: A structural analysis on Italian Medical Devices"
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Speaker: Paola Valbonesi (University of Padova (Italy) and Higher School of Economics (Moscow))
By empirically exploiting an original dataset on standardized medical devices purchased in the period January-December 2013 by 135 Italian local public buyers (i.e., hospitals and health units), we investigate each buyer’s ability to run the procurement process. Our results show that: i) the average prices vary substantially among public buyers; ii) this variation is largely captured by the buyers fixed effect; iii) the buyers ability is correlated with institutional characteristics, geography, and size; iv) mandatory reference prices determine higher average purchasing prices for high-ability public buyers, no effect for medium-ability and lower prices for low-ability public buyers.
Paper
Place: room 120, 20 Myasnitskaya str., Moscow
Date and time: March, 22; 18:00
Language: English
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Date
22 March
18:00
Address
20 Myasnitskaya Ulitsa