EPP2023: 5th Economics of Public Procurement Workshop ZEW - Leibniz Institute for European Economic Research Mannheim, Germany, October 26-27, 2023 |
Conference website | https://www.zew.de/en/events-and-professional-training/detail/fifth-economics-of-public-procurement-workshop/4116?no_cache=1&cHash=3e18af1822d631a4e093e6f5631397ff |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=epp2023 |
Submission deadline | July 31, 2023 |
5th Economics of Public Procurement Workshop
Mannheim, 26 and 27 October 2023
The ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research, jointly with the University of Turku and the VATT Institute for Economic Research, is pleased to announce the call for papers for the “5th Economics of Public Procurement Workshop”, which will take place in Mannheim on 26–27 October 2023. The event will be held in person on the premises of ZEW.
The symposium provides an annual forum to discuss recent advances in the economic analysis of public procurement and to bring together economists active in the field. Last year’s program can be found here.
The workshop will feature the keynote speech by Kei Kawai (U.C. Berkeley)
Call for papers and financial support
For this edition, papers on collusion or secondary objectives (e.g., green or innovation policies) are particularly welcome. Papers are also invited on the following (non-exhaustive) list of procurement topics:
- Incentives, screening, and monitoring
- Political economy of allocation decisions and favoritism
- Governance of contracting agencies
- Firm and industry responses
- Efficacy of different award designs
- Active and passive waste
- Pre-award vs. post-award outcomes
- Regulation
- Market structure
Both empirical and theoretical work is welcome. Interested authors are asked to submit a full paper in PDF format by 31 July 2023.
Applicants will be notified of the acceptance decision by early September 2023. Accommodation and travel expenses (economy class) for presenters will be covered. There is no workshop fee.
Organizers and program committee
Leonardo M. Giuffrida (ZEW, MaCCI, and CESifo)
Janne Tukiainen (University of Turku and VATT)
Adriano De Leverano (ZEW and MaCCI)
Contact
E-mail: epp2023@zew.de