Search Results - subject:"PROCUREMENT AUCTIONS"

Does Publicity Affect Competition? Evidence from Discontinuities in Public Procurement Auctions?

Coviello, Decio; Mariniello, Mario - Department of Economics, European University Institute - 2008

potential participants on competition in public procurement auctions. We show that most of the effects of publicity are at … Public Procurement Auctions Decio Coviello and Mario Mariniello EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE DEPARTMENT OF … ECONOMICS Does Publicity Affect Competition? Evidence from Discontinuities in Public Procurement Auctions DECIO COVIELLO and …

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Bidding for Complex Projects: Evidence From the Acquisitions of IT Services

Albano, Gian Luigi; Dini, Federico; Zampino, Roberto - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

suppliers’ bidding behavior in procurement auctions for complex IT services, we find results that are consistent with theory. We …

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Preferred Suppliers in Auction Markets

Burguet, Roberto; Perry, Martin K. - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2008

In a procurement setting, this paper examines agreements between a buyer and one of the suppliers which would increase their joint surplus. The provisions of such agreements depend on the buyer's ability to design the rules of the final procurement auction. When the buyer has no such ability,...

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Preferred Suppliers in Asymmetric Auction Markets

Burguet, Robert; Perry, Martin K. - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014

This paper examines preference in procurement with asymmetric suppliers. The preferred supplier has a right-of-first-refusal to obtain the contract at a price equal to the bid of a competing supplier. Despite the inefficiency created by the right-of-first-refusal, preference increases the joint...

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Bid-taker power and supply base diversification

Wan, Zhixi; Beil, Damian R. - In: Manufacturing & service operations management : M & SOM 16 (2014) 2, pp. 300-314

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Common-value procurement auctions with renegotiation

Baltaduonis, Rimvydas; Rentschler, Lucas - In: Theoretical economics letters 4 (2014) 8, pp. 619-622

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Entry in liberalized railway markets: The German experience

Lalive, Rafael; Schmutzler, Armin - 2007

In Germany, competitive franchising is increasingly being used to procure passenger railway services that were previously provided by a state monopolist. This paper analyzes 77 tenders that differ with respect to network size, service frequency, contract duration and the proximity to other lines...

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Exploring the effects of competition for railway markets

Lalive, Rafael; Schmutzler, Armin - 2007

This paper studies the effects of introducing competition for local passenger railway markets in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. We compare the evolution of the frequency of service on lines that were exposed to competition for the market with lines procured by direct negotiations with...

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Empirical analyses of online procurement auctions - business value, bidding behavior, learning and incumbent effect

Zhong, Fang - 2007

auctions, while non-incumbent winner's quality is lower. These findings imply that the main value of online procurement … auctions for business services comes from incumbents in the form of reduced price and enhanced quality. We find that after …

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Designing multi-unit multiple bid auctions: an agent-based computational model of uniform, discriminatory and generalised Vickrey Auctions

Hailu, Atakelty; Thoyer, Sophie - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2007

Multi-unit auctions are being used by public agencies to allocate resources and to purchase services. These auctions resolve the lumpy bid problem inherent in single-bid auctions by allowing bidders to submit a supply or demand schedule. However, the choice of pricing formats for multi-unit...

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