This study examines procurement policy issues in light of recent concerns on delays in project implementation and underspending of government agencies. In the 2014 and 2015 reports of the Department of Budget and Management, procurement is cited as a reason for underspending. Likewise,...

In health care, many aspects of the delivery of services are subject to regulation. Often the purpose of the regulated health care system is to encourage providers to keep costs down without skimping on quality. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effect of price regulation and free...

We consider second-price and first-price auctions in the symmetric independent private values framework. We modify the standard model by the assumption that the bidders have reference-based utility, where a publicly announced reserve price has some influence on the reference point. It turns out...