| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w25160
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 25160
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| The Impact of Industry Consolidation on Government Procurement: Evidence from Department of Defense Contracting |
| Rodrigo Carril; Mark Duggan
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| 发表日期 | 2018-10-15
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| 出版年 | 2018
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | We study the relationship between market structure and public procurement outcomes. In particular, we ask whether and to what extent consolidation-driven increases in industry concentration affect the way in which the government procures its goods and services. We focus on the defense industry, by far the largest contributor to federal procurement spending in the U.S. This industry experienced a sharp increase in the level of concentration during the 1990s, driven by a series of large mergers between defense contractors. Using detailed microdata on Department of Defense (DoD) contract awards, we estimate the causal effect of industry concentration on a series of procurement outcomes, leveraging the differential impact of these mergers across product markets. We find that market concentration caused the procurement process to become less competitive, with an increase in the share of spending awarded without competition, or via single-bid solicitations. Increased concentration also induced a shift from the use of fixed-price contracts towards cost-plus contracts. However, we find no evidence that consolidation led to a significant increase in acquisition costs of large weapon systems, nor to increased spending at the product market level. We infer that the government’s buyer power, especially relevant in this context given the government is often the only purchaser, constrained firms from exercising any additional market power gained by consolidation. |
| 主题 | Public Economics
; National Fiscal Issues
; Industrial Organization
; Antitrust
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w25160
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/582833
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Rodrigo Carril,Mark Duggan. The Impact of Industry Consolidation on Government Procurement: Evidence from Department of Defense Contracting. 2018.
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