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Advancing Green Purchasing in Japanese Municipalities
Darnall, Nicole; Arimura, Toshi H.; Miyamoto, Takuro; … - 2022
The Japanese Ministry of Environment is promoting green purchasing policies across all levels of Japanese government. A primary reason is that green purchasing policies have the potential to significantly reduce carbon impacts across the globe and can help Japan achieve its carbon emissions...
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Supplier and Buyer Market Power, Appropriability, and Innovation Activities : Evidence for the German Automobile Industry
Peters, Jürgen - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre <Augsburg> - 1998
Recent econometric studies only emphasize the role of longterm demand expectations and technological capability. They neglect the impact of buyer market structure on innovative efforts of input suppliers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005840316
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Solving a Bi-Objective Winner Determination Problem in a Transportation Procurement Auction
Buer, Tobias; Pankratz, Giselher - Fernuniversität <Hagen> / Lehrstuhl für … - 2010
This paper introduces a bi-objective winner determination problem which arises in the procurement oftransportation contracts via combinatorial auctions. The problem is modelled as an extension to the setcovering problem and considers the minimisation of the total procurement costs and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870646
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Public Goods and Economic Development
Besley, Timothy; Ghatak, Maitreesh - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004
Effective provision of public goods is a key determinant of quality of life. Conventional approaches to poverty measurement look only at private goods, butthis view is too narrow. Access to safe drinking water, sanitation, transport,medical care, and schools is essential both as a direct...
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Public-Private Partnerships versus Traditional Procurement: An Experimental Investigation
Hoppe, Eva I.; Kusterer, David J.; Schmitz, Patrick W. - Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics and … - 2011
A government agency wants an infrastructure-based public service to be provided. Our experimental study compares two different modes of provision. In a public-private partnership, the two tasks of building the infrastructure and operating it are delegated to one private contractor (a...
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Kostenmessung der Prozesse öffentlicher Liefer-, Dienstleistungs- und Bauaufträge aus Sicht der Wirtschaft und der öffentlichen Auftraggeber
Kröber, Robert; Fieseler, Jörn; Kirch, Thomas - Rambøll Management GmbH; Institut für … - 2008
Die Vergabe öffentlicher Aufträge unterliegt in Deutschland den Vorgabengesetzlicher Regelungen. Laut Beschluss der Bundesregierung vom Juni 2006sollen diese Regelungen im bestehenden System verschlankt und vereinfachtwerden. Das Ziel soll dabei unter anderem sein, den damit...
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Strategic bi-sourcing
Beladi, Hamid; Mukherjee, Arijit - University of Texas <San Antonio, Tex.>; University … - 2008
We provide a theoretical justification for bi-sourcing, which refers to thesituation where a final goods producer buys an input from an outside supplier and alsoproduces it in-house. Bi-sourcing occurs if the marginal cost of producing the input inhouseis higher than the marginal cost of outside...
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MODELS WITH TWO OR MORE PUBLIC GOODS
Cornes, Richard; Itaya, Jun-ichi - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics; … - 2003
We extend the simple model of voluntary public good provision toallow for two or more public goods, and explore the new possibilitiesthat arise in this setting. We show that, when there are many publicgoods, voluntary contrib...
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STOCHASTIC PRODUCTION AND THE LAW OF SUPPLY
Dasgupta, Indraneel - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics
This paper analyzes the problem of deriving the law of supply from plausible restrictions onobserved input … terms of a stochastic supply function,and introduces a restriction on a stochastic supply function which leads to a … stochastic version ofthe law of supply... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005869311
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Supply Network Formation and Fragility
Elliott, Matthew - 2020
We model the production of complex goods in a large supply network. Each firmsources several essential inputs through … idiosyncraticdisruptions. However, there is a regime in which equilibrium supply networks are fragile, withsmall aggregate shocks to … relationships causing arbitrarily steep drops in output. The endogenousconfiguration of supply networks provides a new channel for …
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