Can Electronic Procurement Improve Infrastructure Provision? Evidence from Public Works in India and Indonesia

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Lewis-Faupel, Sean; Neggers, Yusuf; Olken, Benjamin A.; Pande, Rohini
• 署名单位: University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; Harvard University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-ECONOMIC POLICY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7731
• DOI: 10.1257/pol.20140258
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 258-283
• 关键词: Mobile phones; CORRUPTION; auctions; performance; INFORMATION; Niger; price

摘要

This paper examines whether electronic procurement (e-procurement), which increases access to information and reduces personal interactions with potentially corrupt officials, improves procurement outcomes. We develop unique datasets from India and Indonesia and use variation in adoption of e-procurement within both countries. We find no evidence of reduced prices but do find that e-procurement leads to quality improvements. In India, where we observe quality directly, e-procurement improves road quality, and in Indonesia, e-procurement reduces delays. Regions with e-procurement are more likely to have winners come from outside the region. On net, the results suggest that e-procurement facilitates entry from higher quality contractors.