TY - JOUR PY - 1994// TI - Progress payments and cost overruns in defence contracts JO - Defence and peace economics A1 - Heyes, Anthony G. A1 - Liston-Heyes, C SP - 289 EP - 299 VL - 5 IS - 4 N2 - In recent years military procurement agencies have used “progress payments” in contracting. Although, overall, the adoption of such a policy may well have contributed to a decrease in total costs of procurement, we identify a class of inefficiencies that are likely to have been generated by it.

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