Public Procurement

Interview with Francesco Decarolis about reputation and corruption in public procurement

Pedro Telles

Feb 15, 2017

Episode #31 of the best (and only?) podcast about public procurement is up. This time the interviewee is Francesco Decarolis from the Einaudi Centre for Economics and Finance and we spent some quality time talking about reputation and corruption in public procurement, including how a contracting authority nudged contractors to take their reputation more seriously.

Francesco was awarded a coveted ERC Starting Grant and will be doing in depth research in this area for the next few years.

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If it quacks like a duck...

What's next in terms of events

A bird’s eye view about the Procurement Act 2023 philosophy

Portugal: analysing procurement proposals of parties manifestos (IV)