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quite low, given that nearly each firm has reputation to protect. But why has the vast majority of firms no registered …
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quite low, given that nearly each firm has reputation to protect. But why has the vast majority of firms no registered …
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cartel. I find that after this date, the two suspected firms i) were more likely to bid in the same auction and ii) submitted … significantly lower bids when they competed in the same auction. A structural model of entry and bidding shows that if the firms had …
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Auctions with endogenous rationing have been introduced to stimulate competition. Such (procurement) auctions reduce the volume put out to tender when competition is low. This paper finds a strong negative effect of endogenous rationing on participation when bid-preparation is costly,...
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A number of recent papers have proposed that a pattern of isolated winning bids may be associated with collusion. In contrast, others have suggested that bid clustering, especially of the two lowest bids, is indicative of collusion. In this paper, we present evidence from an actual procurement...
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in 2013, to be increased to 100 % by 2020. In this paper, we emphasize the importance of a properly chosen auction design … as the significantly higher auction share, compared to the past and current trading phase, is expected to yield a thin … secondary market for CO2 allowances. We elaborate main criteria that a viable auction design is supposed to fulfil and propose a …
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with a theorem: that asymmetric price transmission is sustained up to a certain maximum level which might include the …
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indices that correctly reflect the true price movements of IT products. This paper assesses the differences between … traditional and quality adjusted indices by providing results for PC hardware. Transaction price data for the period from 1985 to … 1994 are used to construct price indices for personal computers in Germany. The use of hedonic methods allows to correct …
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Green startups are a major driver of eco-innovation and as such a major contributor to climate change mitigation and green growth. However, they often lack sufficient funding from investors. Our study focuses on the factors that determine venture capital investors to invest in green startups. In...
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This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions induced by environmental innovations. On the basis of the parameter estimates of the Multinomial Logit and of several Multinomial Probit Models, we show that we have to distinguish between the factors that have an impact on employment...
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