Incentives In Procurement Contracting

Jim Leitzel is associate professor of public policy studies at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University.Jean Tirole is scientific director at the Institut d'Economie Industrielle in Toulouse and researcher at CERAS (Ecole des Ponts, Paris).

• Introduction -- Defense Procurement: Politics, Management, and Incentives -- Inefficiently Low Production Rates in Defense Procurement: An Economic Analysis -- Incentive-Based Procurement Oversight by Protest -- Procurement and Quality Monitoring -- The Provision of Quality in Procurement -- The Choice of What to Procure -- Defense Procurement with Unverifiable Performance -- Licensing and Technology Transfer -- Incentives for Cost Reduction in Defense Procurement -- Defense Procurement and Economic Theory