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Budish, Eric B.; Cramton, Peter C.; Kyle, Albert S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We introduce and analyze a new market design for trading financial assets. The design allows traders to directly trade any user-defined linear combination of assets. Orders for such portfolios are expressed as downward-sloping piecewise-linear demand curves with quantities as flows...

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Scoring and Cartel Discipline in Procurement Auctions

Nakabayashi, Jun; Ortner, Juan M.; Chassang, Sylvain; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

prevent the introduction of explicit randomness in auction design. We make progress on this issue by studying the impact of …

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Inference of Bidders' Risk Attitudes in Ascending Auctions with Endogenous Entry

Fang, Hanming - 2013

Bidders' risk attitudes have key implications for choices of revenue-maximizing auction formats. In ascending auctions … entry costs but contains exogenous variations of potential competition and auction characteristics. In the first scenario … equilibrium entry probabilities vary with observed auction characteristics and potential competition. We also show identification …

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A Bid Strategy for Earlier Payment : Evidence and Implications of Front-End Loading in Procurement

Marion, Justin; Rosa, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Liquidity management is key in industries with variable cash flows. We study how businesses in the highway construction industry manage cash flow by strategically bidding more on work with an earlier payout--a practice known as front-end loading. We find that small contractors, infrequent...

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Information Favoritism and Scoring Bias in Contests

Deng, Shanglyu; Fang, Hanming; Fu, Qiang; Wu, Zenan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Two potentially asymmetric players compete for a prize of common value, which is initially unknown, by exerting efforts. A designer has two instruments for contest design. First, she decides whether and how to disclose an informative signal of the prize value to players. Second, she sets the...

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Information-Based Pricing in Specialized Lending

Blickle, Kristian; He, Zhiguo; Huang, Jing; Parlatore, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study specialized lending in a credit market competition model with private information. Two banks, equipped with similar data processing systems, possess "general" signals regarding the borrower's quality. However, the specialized bank gains an additional advantage through further...

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Public Information as a Source of Disagreement Among Shareholders

Bouton, Laurent; Llorente-Saguer, Aniol; Macé, Antonin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study how beliefs about firm value respond to public information stemming from either public announcements or shareholder meetings. We focus on settings with homogeneous shareholders (i.e., agents with common preferences and opinions), where information is about which course of action is best...

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Bayesian Persuasion with Lie Detection

Ederer, Florian; Min, Weicheng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

How does lie detection constrain the potential for one person to persuade another to change her action? We consider a model of Bayesian persuasion in which the Receiver can detect lies with positive probability. We show that the Sender lies more when the lie detection probability increases. As...

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Procurement and Infrastructure Costs

Liscow, Zachary; Nober, Will; Slattery, Cailin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Infrastructure costs in the United States are high and rising. The procurement process is one potential cost driver. In this paper we conduct a survey of procurement practices across the 50 states. We survey both employees at each state department of transportation (DOT) and the road builders...

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Phoning Home : The Procurement of Telecommunications for Incarcerated Individuals in the United States

Marra, M. R.; Miller, Nathan H.; Sileo, Gretchen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

"commission" they would pay the correctional authority. Using data from public records requests, we estimate a first-score auction …

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