This paper studies procurement contracts where a buyer can either divide full production among multiple suppliers or award the entire production to a single supplier. We examine the effect of using multiple suppliers on investment incentives. In a framework of generalized second-price auctions...

Fraud is an ancient crime and one that annually causes hundreds of billions of dollars in losses. We develop an evolutionary theory that suggests cyclical behavior in frauds should be common. We perform a wavelet analysis of the frequencies of fraudulent and non-fraudulent offenses. Our results...

We revisit the topic of national favoritism in government procurement in the context of international trade, focusing on the impact of a participation/transition cost difference between domestic and foreign firms. Our public tender model generates two kinds of equilibrium outcomes, where a...