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Has the Single Market for public procurement had the expected effects after six years in progress? The following article attempts to answer this question by first presenting alternative theoretical approaches to analysing the EU liberalisation of the public procurement market and then confronting these with the result of an empirical analysis.
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Nielsen, J.UM., Hansen, L.G. The EU public procurement regime— Does it work?. Intereconomics 36, 255–263 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02928979
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