Understanding Home Bias in Procurement : Evidence from National and Subnational Governments / Manuel García-Santana, Marta Santamaría.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

García-Santana, Manuel, author.

Santamaría, Marta, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International economic integration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (75 pages)

Other Title:

Understanding Home Bias in Procurement

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 2023.

Summary:

Are governments locally biased when buying goods and services? Can this home bias explain the low integration of procurement markets? Using one million procurement contracts awarded in France and Spain, this paper explores whether the home bias follows the government's geographical scope: national governments have a national bias, while subnational governments have a local bias. The relative home bias across governments is estimated by comparing how local and non-local establishments sell the same product to national and subnational governments in the same destination. This paper finds that the governments' home bias explains a big part of the high local concentration in procurement.

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Publisher Number:

10.1596/1813-9450-10311