Публикация в European Journal of Political Economy

Статья «Autocratic governors in public procurement» Андрея Ткаченко, научного сотрудника Лаборатории эмпирического анализа предприятий и рынков в переходной экономике ИАПР, и Даниила Есаулова (МИЭФ) опубликована на сайте журнала European Journal of Political Economy

Статья была подготовлена в рамках научно-исследовательского проекта "Факторы, влияющие на эффективность государственных закупок и предприятий с государственной собственностью". Она опубликована онлайн и доступна для прочтения на сайте журнала: «Autocratic governors in public procurement»

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Аннотация статьи: The personal role of sub-national rulers is crucial for regional development in countries with weak institutions. This paper studies the impact of regional governors’ tenure in office and their local ties on procurement performance in Russia. To identify the causal effect, we construct instruments for governor’s tenure by exploiting the regional vote share of ruling party in past parliament elections. We find the evidence that governors who do not have pre-governing local ties in the region (outsiders) demonstrate predatory behaviour, compared to governors with local ties (insiders). Namely, governors-outsiders restrict the competition at awarding stage significantly more than governors-insiders. Moreover, for governors-outsiders this restriction becomes stronger with tenure in office, while governors-insiders do not demonstrate such negative tenure effect. We argue that this restriction of competition by governors-outsiders cannot be explained by the intention of better contracts execution: the delays in execution and the probability of contract termination either increase or keep stable with tenure for governors-outsiders and these outcomes decrease with tenure for governors-insiders.