This paper assesses the impact of favoritism in public procurement on private sector productivity growth. To this end, it combines three novel microeconomic data sets: administrative data on firms, including more than 4 million firm-year observations and rich financial and ownership information; public procurement transaction data for 150,000 published contracts and their tenders; and a newly assembled data set on firms’ political connections, drawing...
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2025/03/13
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS11085
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1
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2025/03/13
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Disclosed
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Procuring Low Growth : The Impact of Political Favoritism on Public Procurement and Firm Performance in Bulgaria