IPPC5’s theme is "Public Procurement: Professionalization & Capacity Building."

We welcome papers that focus on theoretical, empirical, practical, and institutional perspectives.  Suggested topics of focus (this is not an all-inclusive list):

• Public procurement and institutions (law, politics, public finance)
• Public procurement systems in developing and developed countries (capacity building, reforms)
• Lessons learned (case studies, benchmarking)
• Procurement and innovation (new technologies, e-procurement, firms’ investments in R&D/innovation)
• The role of standards in procurement markets
• Accountability and transparency (preventing corruption, ethical codes) in public procurement
• Competition and procurement (impact on SMEs, competitiveness, antitrust)
• 2nd generation procurement reform
• Procurement processes and performances
• Public tendering (procedures, auction design)
• Handling socio-economic concerns in public procurement policies (environment, employment, SMEs)
• Administration of public procurement (structures, policies, centralization, decentralization)
• Corporate governance models and public procurement.