versus hard information) used for screening and monitoring borrowers, and the structure of their compensation schemes. …

rule in an iterative auction is to suppress strategic behavior by bidders and promote simple, continual, meaningful bidding … notion of strong activity rules, which allow simple, consistent bidding strategies while precluding all behaviors that cannot … environments, and hindered from bidding in a simple and consistent way by the commonly used revealed-preference activity rule …

A great body of knowledge exists on the theory of auctions and competitive bidding that is of potential relevance to …

possible value in strategic bidding; providing an indication of mistakes in bids; determining a justifiable amount of bid … provides overwhelming evidence in favor of the dominance of inherent variability in bidding. …

Bidding is a very competitive process in the construction industry; eachcompetitor’s business is based on winning or … historicaldata for a certain year for bidding on certain type of projects, the unit prices may beadjusted for size, time and location …, but the basis for bidding on projects of similar typesis the same. Statistical tools can be used to model the underlying …

group of pre-qualified suppliers, there is a lack of understanding of the impact of dynamic bidding process on procurement … outcomes and bidding behavior. To extend the knowledge of this important issue, in this thesis, we explore empirically the … bidding behavior and examine the effect of incumbent status on bidding. First, we collect detailed auction and contract …

With notably few exceptions, bidding models contain probability distributions with parameters that are assumed to be …