This paper is about a procurement auction setting, introduced in Gal-Or, Gal-Or and Dukes (2007), in which suppliers offer differentiated products and the buyer needs to decide whether to reveal or not to the suppliers the own preferences for the various products. We provide some technical...

The main aim of this paper is to review some of the newest and most promising advances in auction theory with an eye to applications to procurement practice. Here we focus in particular on four topics related to multidimensional auctions: 1) how to define a proper scoring rule when the awarding...

This work studies a reverse auction in which a buyer needs to acquire a given good or service from suppliers having different costs. The sellers are characterized by qualities that are the buyer’s private information. Comparing the outcomes of different policies regarding the revelation of...

<i> Analisi di diverse procedure di affidamento della gestione dei servizi pubblici locali </i> (di Lorenzo Bardelli e Nicola Doni) - ABSTRACT: This paper is about franchise contracts, and considers simultaneously both the economic literature on Demsetz competition and on transaction cost economics,...