Sustainable Public Procurement: Research Trends and New Challenges

International Workshop on

“Sustainable Public Procurement: research trends and new challenges”

4 - 5 October 2013, Moscow, Higher School of Economics

Friday (04.10.2013)
9.00 – 9.30 / Registration
9.30-10.30 / Giancarlo Spagnolo (Keynote speaker)
Relational Contract and Competitive Screening: Competition, Discretion and Quality in Procurement (with Giacomo Calzolari)
Chair: Elena Podkolzina
10.30-11.00 / Coffee break
11.00-13.00 / Session 1: Quality from procurement procedures / Chair: Marian Moszoro
Paola Valbonesi / Court efficiency and procurement performance
Eshien Chong / The quality of governance and the use of negotiated procurement procedures: some (un)surprising evidence from the European Union
Aleksandra Bashina / Efficiency of simple homogeneous goods procurement under rigid governmental regulation: the case of sugarsand procurement in Russia
Anna Balsevich / Cross regional comparison of the efficiency of public procurement in Russia
Discussion
13.00-14.30 / Lunch
14.30-16.30 / Session 2: Efficiency and procurement regulations / Chair: Eshien Chong
Andey Tkachenko / Comparative analysis of public procurement efficiency of national research universities under different regulation regimes
Luigi Moretti / Subcontracting in public procurement: an empirical investigation
Anissa Boulemia / Delay of payment and SMEs’ access to public procurement: an empirical analysis
Marian Moszoro / The rigidity of public contracts
Discussion
16.30 -17.00 / Coffee break
17.00 – 19.00 / Round table: Corruption in public procurement / Chair: Paola Valbonesi
PANEL: Elena Panfilova (TI), Vadim Novikov (RANEPA), Alexey Ulianov (NAIZ)
DISCUSSANTS: Giancarlo Spagnolo and Emmanuelle Auriol
Saturday (05.10.2013)
9.15-10.15 / Emmanuelle Auriol (Keynote speaker)
To be confirmed
Chair: Carine Staropoli
10.15-10.30 / Break
10.30-11.30 / Session 3: Favoritism and corruption in procurement / Chair: Luigi Moretti
Michael Klein / Do politicians procure their way to congress? An empirical analysis of public procurement and elections
Maria Ostrovnaya / Are e-auctions the right medicine to favoritism in public procurement?
Tatiana Ilina / Corruption, incompetence or unsuccessful reforms? Determinants of economic inefficiency in public procurement from Vladimirskaya Region
Discussion
11.30-12.00 / Coffee break
12.00 – 13.30 / Session 4: Competition and collusion in procurement / Chair: Anna Balsevich
Elena Podkolzina / Collusion detection in Russian highway construction
Romilda Rizzo / Is competition always able to mitigate the waste effects of corruption? Empirical evidence on Italian public work contracts
Anastasia Eremina / Noncompetitive behavior in public purchase of oil products in the Moscow region
Discussion
13.30 / Adjourn

Local organizer: Elena Podkolzina (HSE, Moscow)

Co-organizers: Carine Staropoli (Université Paris 1) and Paola Valbonesi (University of Padova)

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