This paper considers the optimality of setting a secret reserve price in ascending auctions. Contrary to intuition, an ascending auction is no longer equivalent to a second price auction when the reserve price is secret. We determine the seller's optimal reserve price policy when the bidders'...

This article analyzes the properties of the so-called « T2A » DRG-based hospital payment policy implemented in France since 2004. The limits of this policy, whose aim is to induce productive efficiency, are studied in the first part. It is shown that serious drawbacks come from the lack of...

[eng] Awarding Contracts According to the Best Bids in Economic Terms by Florence Naegelen . This article examines problems arising from the criterion for determining the best bids in tenders where the quality of products can be observed. The optimum procedure is one where bidders can provide...

[fre] La réglementation hospitalière : tarification par pathologie ou achat de soins ? par Michel Mougeot, Florence Naegelen . De nombreux pays ont mis en place des mécanismes incitatifs pour maîtriser des dépenses de santé. La tarification par pathologie repose sur une logique de...

This paper focuses on recent theoretical contributions to the hospital price regulation literature. Besides the usual efficiency-rent extraction trade-off, some specific trade-off between quality enhancement and cost reduction effort or between efficiency and selection deterrence must be taken...

[fre] Face au développement du commerce électronique, cet article étudie le fonctionnement des enchères sur internet dans le cadre du commerce entre entreprises (B2B), entre particuliers (C2C) et entre entreprises et particuliers (B2C). Il met en évidence les particu- larités de ces...

[spa] El arbitraje calidad-precio en los procedimientos de licitación, . Florence Naegelen.. . En numerosos casos, para atribuir los contratos públicos es preciso comparar las ofertas transmitidas por las empresas utilizando un criterio que intègre la calidad y el precio propuestos. En el...