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Procurement and Predation: Dynamic Sourcing from Financially Constrained Suppliers

Arve, Malin - 2013

This paper studies the interaction between financially constrained and financially strong firms on a procurement market. It characterizes and discusses a procurement agency's optimal response when faced with financially asymmetric firms. By considering a dynamic setting, both present and future...

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The Benefits of Sequential Screening

Krähmer, Daniel; Strausz, Roland - 2011

This paper considers the canonical sequential screening model and shows that when the agent has an expost outside option, the principal does not benefit from eliciting the agent's information sequentially. Unlike in the standard model without expost outside options, the optimal contract is...

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Innovation Contests with Entry Auction

Giebe, Thomas - 2010

We consider procurement of an innovation from heterogeneous sellers. Innovations are random but depend on unobservable effort and private information. We compare two procurement mechanisms where potential sellers first bid in an auction for admission to an innovation contest. After the contest,...

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Optimal Procurement Contracts with Pre-Project Planning

Krähmer, Daniel; Strausz, Roland - 2010

The paper studies procurement contracts with pre-project investigations in the presence of adverse selection and moral hazard. To model the procurer's roblem, we extend a standard sequential screening model to endogenous information acquisition with moral hazard. The optimal contract displays...

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Ex post information rents and disclosure in sequential screening

Krähmer, Daniel; Strausz, Roland - 2013

We study ex post information rents in sequential screening models where the agent receives private ex ante and ex post information. The principal has to pay ex post information rents for preventing the agent to coordinate lies about his ex ante and ex post information. When the agent's ex ante...

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Auctions vs. negotiations: The effects of inefficient renegotiation

Herweg, Fabian; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2014

For the procurement of complex goods the early exchange of information is important to avoid costly renegotiation ex post. We show that this is achieved by bilateral negotiations but not by auctions. Negotiations strictly outperforms auctions if sellers are likely to have superior information...

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Nationalizations and effciency

Crivelli, Ernesto; Staal, Klaas - 2009

productive efficiency. Nationalization of private ?rms in case unpro?table investments were made, leads to increased allocative … efficiency despite private ownership. The effort level chosen by the managers working for ?rms is also affected by government … intervention with an impact on productive efficiency. …

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The Threat of Capital Drain: A Rationale for Public Banks?

Hakenes, Hendrik; Schnabel, Isabel - 2006

This paper yields a rationale for why subsidized public banks may be desirable from a regional perspective in a financially integrated economy. We present a model with credit rationing and heterogeneous regions in which public banks prevent a capital drain from poorer to richer regions by...

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Plaintiffs exploiting Plaintiffs

Stremitzer, Alexander - 2008

We consider a model of a single defendant and N plaintiffs where the total cost of litigation is fixed on the part of the plaintiffs and shared among the members of a suing coalition. By settling and dropping out of the coalition, a plaintiff therefore creates a negative externality on the other...

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Can Post-Grant Reviews Improve Patent System Design? A Twin Study of US and European Patents

Graham, Stuart J.H.; Harhoff, Dietmar - 2006

This paper assesses the impact of adopting a post-grant review institution in the US patent system by comparing the 'opposition careers' of European Patent Office (EPO) equivalents of litigated US patents to those of a control group of EPO patents. We demonstrate several novel methods of...

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