political connections on access to a specific external resource – government subsidies – in China. Design …/methodology/approach – This study proposes that managerial political connections help firms gain access to government subsidies; in addition … managerial political connections play a significant positive impact on obtaining government subsidies only when managerial …

This contribution revisits the problem of allocating R&D subsidies by government agencies. Typically, the applicants …-post rationality, while observing the budget constraint. We test the auction in Monte-Carlo simulation and discuss its applicability …

A budget-constrained buyer wants to purchase items from a shortlisted set. Items are differentiated by observable …

number of policy steps would help to improve the situation. These include better thought out and better written legislation …