Search Results - subject:"PROCUREMENT AUCTIONS"

The impact of timing on bidding behavior in procurement auctions of contracts with private costs

Silva, Dakshina G. De; Kosmopoulou, Georgia; Pagel, Beatrice - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

We provide a comparison of bidding behavior between multi-round and single-round auctions considering bid lettings for asphalt construction contracts. Using a reduced-form difference-in-difference approach as well as the nonparametric estimation technique proposed by Racine and Li (2004) we find...

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Small Business Set-asides in Procurement Auctions: An Empirical Analysis

Nakabayashi, Jun - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2010

As part of public procurement, many governments adopt small business programs to provide contract opportunities for businesses often with preferences for firms operated by members of groups designated as disadvantaged. The redistribution arising from such programs, however, can introduce...

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On the design of public infrastructure procurements

Hardeman, Sander; Vlist, Arno J. van der - 2010

Public procurement of infrastructure has been subject to a long standing debate concerning the procurements' qualification requirements. Basically, it remains unclear what determines public procurement officers to vary procurements' qualification requirements. This research serves to elaborate...

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Do Combinatorial Procurement Auctions Lower Cost? - An Empirical Analysis of Public Procurement of Multiple Contracts

Lunander, Anders; Lundberg, Sofia - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2009

Combinatorial procurement auctions are desirable as they enable bidding firms to pass their potential cost synergies on …-price procurement auctions of single and multiple contracts, with and without the option to submit package bids, we find that firms …-price procurement auctions. Further, the analysis does not show significant differences in the procurer’s cost by type of auction. …

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Assessment of Green Public Procurement as a Policy Tool: Cost-efficiency and Competition Considerations

Brännlund, Runar; Lundberg, Sofia; Marklund, Per-Olov - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2009

Public procurement is officially regarded as an effective means to secure environmental improvement. Estimates indicate that public authorities within the European Union typically purchase goods and services corresponding to approximately 16 percent of GNP per annum. Hence, it is believed,...

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An analysis of scoring and buyer-determined procurement auctions

Santamaría, Natalia - In: Production and operations management : an international … 24 (2015) 1, pp. 147-158

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Procurement auctions with ex-ante endogenous bribery

Huang, He; Li, Zhipeng - In: Economic modelling 47 (2015), pp. 111-117

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An investigation of the average bid mechanism for procurement auctions

Chang, Wei-shiun; Chen, Bo; Salmon, Tim - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 61 (2015) 6, pp. 1237-1254

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Bidding for complex projects: Evidence from the acquisitions of IT services

Albano, Gian Luigi; Dini, Federico; Zampino, Roberto - 2008

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

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

Coviello, Decio; Mariniello, Mario - Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) - 2008

potential participants on competition in public procurement auctions. We show that most of the effects of publicity are at …

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