The Challenges of Public Procurement Reforms (Routledge Studies in Public Economics and Finance) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367543222 ISBN 13: 9780367543228

Publisher: Routledge, 2022

Synopsis

Public procurement affects a substantial share of world trade flows, amounting to 1000 billion euros per year. In the EU, the public purchase of works, goods and services has been estimated to account on average for 16 percent of GDP. The novelty of this book is that it focuses on the new European Union Directives approved in 2014 by the EU Parliament.

The book consists of original contributions related to four specific themes of interest to the procurers’ day-to-day role in modern public purchasing organizations – both economists and lawyers – allowing for relevant exchanges of views and “real time” interaction. The four sections which characterize the book are Life-cycle Costing in Public Procurement; Calculating Costs and Savings of Public Procurement; Corruption and Probity in Public Procurement and Public Procurement and International Trade Agreements: CETA, TTIP and beyond. These themes have been chosen for their current relevance in relation to the new European Public Procurement Directives and beyond. The original format features, as is the case with the first three volumes, an introductory exchange between leading academics and practitioners, from differing disciplines. It offers a series of sequential interactions between economists, lawyers and technical experts who supplement one another, so as to enrich the liveliness of the debate and improve the mutual understanding between the various professions.

This essential guide will be of interest to policymakers, academics, students and researchers, as well as practitioners working in the field of EU public procurement.

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About the Author

Annalisa Castelli is Associate Professor of Public Economics at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy.

Gustavo Piga is Professor of Economics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.

Stéphane Saussier is Professor of Economics at Sorbonne Business School, France.

Tünde Tátrai is Professor of Economics at the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367543222
• ISBN 13: 9780367543228
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 252
• Editor: Castelli Annalisa, Piga Gustavo, Saussier Stéphane, Tátrai Tünde