The impact of e-procurement on institutional quality

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• dc.contributor.author Mélon, Lela
• dc.contributor.author Spruk, Rock
• dc.date.accessioned 2020-06-18T09:12:36Z
• dc.date.available 2020-06-18T09:12:36Z
• dc.date.issued 2020
• dc.description.abstract We examine the contribution of e-procurement to the institutional quality. To this end, we exploit the early adoption of large-scale e-procurement platforms in three EU countries to consistently estimate the effect of procurement policy change on the institutional quality. Our identification strategy relies on the institutional quality trends similarity between early-adopting countries and the rest of the world and uses a battery of covariates to match the treated and control group to parse out the level of early-adopters’ institutional quality had the e-procurement not been implemented. Drawing on a large sample of 108 countries for the period 1996-2017, our synthetic control and difference-in-differences estimates indicate significant improvements in public sector efficiency and rule of law in the countries with a high-level of pre-reform institutional quality and a pervasive deterioration in the ability to control corruption and quality of regulation in the setting with lower pre-reform institutional quality. The estimated effects of adopting e-procurement on institutional quality are robust to a number of specification checks, treatment sensitivity analyses and donor sample selection issues.
• dc.description.sponsorship The research was funded by the EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 789461 (SCOM project – sustainable company).
• dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
• dc.identifier.citation Mélon L, Spruk R. The impact of e-procurement on institutional quality. Journal of Public Procurement. 2020;20(4):333-75. DOI: 10.1108/JOPP-07-2019-0050
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JOPP-07-2019-0050
• dc.identifier.issn 1535-0118
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/45016
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Emerald
• dc.relation.ispartof Journal of Public Procurement. 2020;20(4):333-75
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/789461
• dc.rights This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Mélon L, Spruk R. The impact of e-procurement on institutional quality. Journal of Public Procurement. 2020;20(4):333-75. DOI: 10.1108/JOPP-07-2019-0050, which has been published by Emerald in final form at https://doi.org/10.1108/JOPP-07-2019-0050.
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• dc.subject.keyword E-procurement
• dc.subject.keyword Public procurement
• dc.subject.keyword Institutional quality
• dc.title The impact of e-procurement on institutional quality
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
• dc.type.version info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion