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A Look Upstream : Electricity Market Restructuring, Risk, Procurement Contracts and Efficiency
Di Maria, Corrado - 2015
This paper analyzes theoretically and empirically how upstream markets are affected by deregulation downstream. Deregulation tends to increase the level of uncertainty in the upstream market. Our theoretical analysis predicts that deregulated firms respond to this increase in uncertainty by...
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Discrimination in Dynamic Procurement Design with Learning-by-Doing
Barbosa, Klenio; Boyer, Pierre - 2021
Discriminatory programs that favor local and small firms in government procurement are common in many countries. This paper studies the long-run impact of procurement discrimination on market structure and future competition in industries where learning-by-doing makes incumbent firms more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315854
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Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
Kerr, William - 2019
quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel … estimates connecting country-industry productivity and exports, and the study exploits heterogeneous technology diffusion from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012902445
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Innovation in the Supply and Procurement of Rig Services
Osmundsen, Petter - 2014
under pressure. On the basis of theory and available empirical insights, the paper outlines the conditions where specific …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046580
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Optimal Cost Overruns : Procurement Auctions and Renegotiation
Herweg, Fabian - 2016
Cost overrun is ubiquitous in public procurement. We argue that this can be the result of a constraint optimal award procedure when the procurer cannot commit not to renegotiate. If cost differences are more pronounced for more complex designs, it is optimal to fix a simple design ex ante and to...
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Empirical Evidence on the Effectiveness of Social Public Procurement Policy : The Case of the Swiss Apprenticeship Training System
Strupler, Mirjam - 2015
This paper assesses the effectiveness of a social public procurement policy in Switzerland that gives firms that train apprentices' a preferential treatment. We estimate the effectiveness of this social procurement policy on a firm's training participation, training intensity, and training...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030486
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Do Government Purchases Affect Unemployment?
Holden, Steinar - 2011
We investigate empirically the effect of government purchases on unemployment in 20 OECD countries, for the period 1960-2007. Compared to earlier studies we use a data set with more variation in unemployment, and which allows for controlling for a host of factors that influence the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124098
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Probabilistic Procurement Auctions
Giebe, Thomas - 2013
money that they offer. Sellers are privately informed on the offered quality of the technology or good. We assume that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078958
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The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment
Chatterji, Aaron - 2014
In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064145
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Business Cycle Effects of Credit and Technology Shocks in a DSGE Model with Firm Defaults
Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2011
This paper proposes a theoretical framework to analyze the impacts of credit and technology shocks on business cycle … different realizations of firm specific technology shocks, possibly leading to default by some firms. The paper advances a new … financial institutions in the transmission of credit and technology shocks to the real economy. A positive credit shock, defined …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119521