Please use this form to submit your study for inclusion into our database. It will be checked by a member of the Innovation Growth Lab team, who may be in contact to ask for more information. Your email address * Your name * Title * The name of the study Short summary A brief description of the project's goals and its current state Abstract <p>We study whether information frictions and corruption perceptions deter firms from doing business with the government. We conduct two nationwide randomized con- trolled trials (RCTs) in collaboration with the national anti-corruption and public procurement supervisory agency in Uganda.The first RCT aims to increase transparency on available procurement opportunities. We provide firms with direct and timely access to information about government tenders over a two-year period, approximating the existence of a centralized portal for tender notices typical of e-procurement reforms. The second RCT additionally addresses misperceptions about the integrity of government entities by giving firms access to structured information on other firms’ perceptions and on anticorruption audits. We find that increasing transparency about tenders alone does not increase firm participation in public procurement. However, correcting firms’ perceptions about the integrity of public entities increases firms’ total number of bids and total government contracts won. Overall, our findings point to the limits of transparency reforms that aim to increase competition in public procurement without also accounting for firms’ perceptions about government corruption and inefficiency.</p> The full abstract of the study, if available Links https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5596b3d9e4b0dd603214b252/t/65ce960759d3f841e38f2211/1708037641229/CLMT_Feb2024.pdf Links to any published papers and related discussions Authors * Affiliations Academic and other institutes that the authors of the study are members of Delivery partner Organisations involved in delivering the trial, if appropriate Year Year Year199419951996199719981999200020012002200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026 Month MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec Day Day12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031 Journal Journal publishing the study, if available Publication stage * Working Paper Published Ongoing Research Forthcoming Discussion Paper Research theme * Entrepreneurship Innovation Business Growth Country Country or countries where this study took place. Topics What sort of topics does the study cover? Sample attributes Hypotheses / research question Sample Trial population and sample selection Number of treatment groups Size of treatment groups Size of control group Unit of analysis Clustered? Yes No Cluster details Trial attributes Treatment description Rounds of data collection Baseline data collection and method Data collection method and data collected Evaluation Outcome variables Results Intervention costs Cost benefit ratio Reference Citation for use in academic references
