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International public procurement: From scant facts to hard data

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  • Cernat, Lucian

    (DG Trade)

  • Kutlina-Dimitrova, Zornitsa

    (DG Trade)

Abstract

Public procurement is a negotiating area gaining in importance at multilateral and bilateral level, as evidenced by a brief review of procurement provisions in existing trade agreements. The size of procurement spending stands in most developed economies at double-digit percentage points of GDP. However, despite the size and importance of these markets, the factual information available to trade negotiators remains scarce. Although public procurement patterns (e.g. size of procurement markets, composition of procurement spending and level of government procurement) can be derived from traditional national accounts statistics, these figures fall short of capturing the international dimension of public procurement. Hence, the paper puts forward a basic conceptual framework for data collection on public procurement that would best serve the future negotiating agenda in this area.

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  • Cernat, Lucian & Kutlina-Dimitrova, Zornitsa, 2015. "International public procurement: From scant facts to hard data," DG TRADE Chief Economist Notes 2015-1, Directorate General for Trade, European Commission.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:dgtcen:2015_001
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    1. Anne‐Célia Disdier & Lionel Fontagné & Enxhi Tresa, 2021. "Economic drivers of public procurement‐related protection," The World Economy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 44(11), pages 3072-3090, November.
    2. Kutlina-Dimitrova, Zornitsa, 2018. "Government procurement: data, trends and protectionist tendencies," DG TRADE Chief Economist Notes 2018-3, Directorate General for Trade, European Commission.
    3. Ivo Križić, 2021. "Regulating public procurement in Brazil, India, and China: Toward the regulatory‐developmental state," Regulation & Governance, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 15(3), pages 561-580, July.
    4. Cernat, Lucian & Kutlina-Dimitrova, Zornitsa, 2020. "Public Procurement - How open is the European Union to US firms and beyond?," CEPS Papers 26698, Centre for European Policy Studies.
    5. Dan Ciuriak & Ali Dadkhah & Jingliang Xiao, 2016. "Better in than Out? Canada and the Trans-Pacific Partnership," e-briefs 236, C.D. Howe Institute.
    6. Kutlina-Dimitrova, Zornitsa, 2017. "Can we put a price on extending the scope of the GPA? First quantitative assessment," DG TRADE Chief Economist Notes 2017-1, Directorate General for Trade, European Commission.
    7. Chiara Carboni & Elisabetta Iossa & Gianpiero Mattera, 2018. "Barriers towards foreign firms in international public procurement markets: a review," Economia e Politica Industriale: Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, Springer;Associazione Amici di Economia e Politica Industriale, vol. 45(1), pages 85-107, March.
    8. Fatima Hafsa & Nicole Darnall & Stuart Bretschneider, 2021. "Estimating the True Size of Public Procurement to Assess Sustainability Impact," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(3), pages 1-18, January.
    9. Chiara Carboni & Elisabetta Iossa & Gianpiero Mattera, 2017. "Barriers to Public Procurement: A Review and Recent Patterns in the EU," IEFE Working Papers 92, IEFE, Center for Research on Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy, Universita' Bocconi, Milano, Italy.
    10. Hanspach, Philip, 2023. "The home bias in procurement. Cross-border procurement of medical supplies during the Covid-19 pandemic," International Journal of Industrial Organization, Elsevier, vol. 89(C).
    11. Howell, Sabrina T., 2020. "Firm type variation in the cost of risk management," Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 64(C).

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    Keywords

    International public procurement; international trade; WTO; GPA;
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    JEL classification:

    • F13 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
    • H57 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Procurement

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