Government Procurement : Market Access, Transparency, and Multilateral Trade Rules

The authors examine the effects on national welfare and market access of two public procurement practices-discrimination against foreign suppliers of goods and services and nontransparency of the procedures used to allocate government contracts to firms. Both types of policies have become prominent...

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Main Authors:	Evenett, Simon J., Hoekman, Bernard M.
Language:	en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
Subjects:	access to markets alternative instruments arbitrage asymmetric information average costs average prices average variable costs barriers to entry bidding border trade budget constraints competition laws competition policies competitive market competitive markets consumer surplus consumers cost functions domestic competition domestic demand domestic industry domestic market domestic production domestic suppliers economic objectives economic welfare empirical studies equilibrium equilibrium prices excess supply exporters factor prices factors of production foreign competition foreign direct investment foreign direct investments foreign firm foreign firms foreign goods foreign market foreign producers foreign products foreign suppliers Foreign Trade Free Trade Free Trade Area GDP geographic proximity government expenditures imperfect competition import tariffs imports industrial policy international trade irreversibility legislation local authorities marginal cost marginal costs Market access market power market segmentation multilateral agreement multilateral disciplines multilateral trade national markets net imports open economies perfect competition perfect substitutes price elasticity price elasticity of demand producers production costs quotas resource allocation sales services markets substitutes suppliers supply curve taxation terms of trade total costs total sales tradable goods trade agreement trade agreements Trade Barriers trade negotiations trade policy trade reform trade reforms trade restrictions transparency Uruguay Round wages welfare effects welfare gains world markets world prices World Trade World Trade Organization WTO zero profits Corruption Government procurement Transparency Discriminatory trade practices Trade agreements
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