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Auctioning Incentive Contracts: An Experimental Study

Onderstal, Sander; Meerendonk, Arthur Van de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

. We do so in procurement settings where the buyer can give the winning bidder incentives to exert effort on non …-price dimensions after the auction. Both auctions theoretically implement the surplus maximizing mechanism. Our experiment confirms …

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Balancing the Bids, Solutions for Unit Price Auctions

Renes, Sander - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

Many organizations use procurement tenders to buy large amounts of goods and services. Especially in the public sector …

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Procurement: The Transaction Costs Perspective in a Globalising World

Butter, Frank A.G. den - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

implies that transaction costs as part of total costs of ownership carry a large weight in procurement decisions. An analysis …

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Does the Wage Tax System cause Budget Deficits?

Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans A.A.M. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000

This discussion paper led to a publication in <A href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/n3w45lxj307m883m/">'Public Choice'</A> 109(3-4) 371-94.<P>In this paper we investigate experimentally the functioning of a wage tax financed unemployment benefit system on the development of the budget deficit, unemployment, and some other indicators of economic performance...</p></a>

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Monitoring and Pay: An Experiment on Employee Performance under Endogenous Supervision

Dittrich, Dennis; Kocher, Martin G. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

maximization problem of the firm. As a result, monitoring and pay should be complements. In our experiment, between and within …

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The Behavioral Impact of Emotions in a Power to take Game: An Experimental Study

Bosman, Ronald; Winden, Frans A.A.M. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999

-making experiment preceding the take game. The gameconsists of two stages. In the first stage, the take authority decides howmuch income …-69, as: 'Emotional Hazard in a Power-to-Take Experiment'. …

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Peers at Work: From the Field to the Lab

Veldhuizen, Roel van; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Sonnemans, Joep - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

riding. In this paper we report an attempt to reproduce the findings of Mas and Moretti in a lab experiment. Lab experiments … colleagues whom they observe. Although the subjects in our experiment are aware of the productivity of others and although there …

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