Koning, Pierre; van de Meerendonk, Arthur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper assesses the effects of changes in scoring weights in auctions, using a unique sample of biddings of private … achieve. We exploit the fact that the scoring weights of these items changed in the time period under consideration, while the … scoring weights of the quality items result in higher price bids, particularly of WTW-firms that are bidding for the first …