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Patterns of Public Procurement Activity in Europe
| Resumo: | How uniformly is public money being used over Europe? Ideally public Institutions and private companies would award and win respectively procurements proportionally to its population dimensions. Nevertheless, not all countries have the same status of development neither the same needs of investments across the entire continent which created the need of grouping countries, based on socio-economic and historical backgrounds, nominated geographical groups. Since there is no public standard institution to associate procurements and aggregate indicators, NUTS3 was used for the purpose, nominated as statistical units. It was found that all types of procurements scale super-linearly with population through all geographical groups adopted for the study. Additionally, the yearly variation of the slopes denotes a substantial growth in Western and Northern countries, corresponding to an increase in the public procurement volume per inhabitant not justified by population reduction nor inflation rate. A contrary tendency is verified in Southern countries, especially in works procurements. Lastly, procurement market, regardless of the contract actor and geographical group tends to have a significant presence of statistical units over-winning and under-winning compared to their geographical peers. These findings provide a method for assessing equality among similar statistical units and a framework for tackling potential misallocation of public investments. |
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| Autores principais: | Carreiras, Manuel António Fernandes |
| Assunto: | Public Procurement Urban Scaling Laws TED |
| Ano: | 2024 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório Institucional da UNL |
| Resumo: | How uniformly is public money being used over Europe? Ideally public Institutions and private companies would award and win respectively procurements proportionally to its population dimensions. Nevertheless, not all countries have the same status of development neither the same needs of investments across the entire continent which created the need of grouping countries, based on socio-economic and historical backgrounds, nominated geographical groups. Since there is no public standard institution to associate procurements and aggregate indicators, NUTS3 was used for the purpose, nominated as statistical units. It was found that all types of procurements scale super-linearly with population through all geographical groups adopted for the study. Additionally, the yearly variation of the slopes denotes a substantial growth in Western and Northern countries, corresponding to an increase in the public procurement volume per inhabitant not justified by population reduction nor inflation rate. A contrary tendency is verified in Southern countries, especially in works procurements. Lastly, procurement market, regardless of the contract actor and geographical group tends to have a significant presence of statistical units over-winning and under-winning compared to their geographical peers. These findings provide a method for assessing equality among similar statistical units and a framework for tackling potential misallocation of public investments. |
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