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We study competitive awarding procedures of short haul railway passenger services in Germany from 1995 to 2011 by means of a newly collected data set. In particular, we use regression techniques to investigate the determinants of the number of bidders, the identity of the winning bidder and the...
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We analyze a drastic price increase in the German auction market for reserve power, which did not appear to be driven by increased costs. Studying the market structure and individual bidding strategies, we find evidence for collusive behavior in an environment with repeated auctions, pivotal...
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We empirically investigate the effect of procurement oversight on contract outcomes. In particular, we stress a distinction between public and private oversight: the former is a set of bureaucratic checks enacted by contracting offices, while the latter is carried out by private insurance...
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We examine bidding behavior in first-price sealed-bid and Dutch auctions, which are strategically equivalent under standard preferences. We investigate whether the empirical breakdown of this equivalence is due to (non-standard) preferences or due to the different complexity of the two formats...
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Procurement regulation aimed at curbing discrimination requires equal treatment of sellers. However, Deb and Pai (2017) show that such regulation imposes virtually no restrictions on the ability to discriminate. We propose a simple rule - imitation perfection - that restricts discrimination...
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Bidding in first-price auctions crucially depends on the beliefs of the bidders about their competitors' willingness to pay. We analyze bidding behavior in a first-price auction in which the knowledge of the bidders about the distribution of their competitors' valuations is restricted to the...
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licensing of environmentally friendly technologies. Altogether, the announcement of the subsidy rate yields higher expected …
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firms, taking into consideration the role played by in-licensing of IP. We find that firms facing more fragmented IP … landscapes have a higher probability of in-licensing. For firms with small patent portfolios we also find a positive association … between fragmentation and licensing costs as a share of sales. We observe a negative relationship between IP fragmentation and …
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11 European countries now operate IP Box regimes that provide substantially reduced rates of corporate tax for income derived from important forms of intellectual property. We incorporate these policies into forward-looking measures of the cost of capital, effective marginal tax rates and...
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into consideration the role played by in-licensing of IP. Controlling for a variety of firm and market characteristics, we … find that firms facing more fragmented IP landscapes are more likely to report expenditures on in-licensing and for those … firms that do incur license costs we find a weak positive association between licensing expenditure and fragmented IP rights …
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