Nakabayashi, Jun; Ortner, Juan M.; Chassang, Sylvain; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025
alternative is to design auctions that hinder collusion. Since Abreu et al. (1986), economic theory has emphasized imperfect … subjective scoring in auctions run by Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transportation. The adoption of scoring … auctions significantly reduced winning bids in ways inconsistent with competition. Model-based inference suggests that the …