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For the procurement of complex goods the early exchange of information is important to avoid costly renegotiation ex … use of negotiations as a procurement mechanism in private industry …
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Cost overrun is ubiquitous in public procurement. We argue that this can be the result of a constraint optimal award …
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We analyse procurement auctions in which sellers are distinguished on the basis of the ratios of quality per unit of …
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Partly motivated by the recent antitrust investigations concerning Google, we develop a leverage theory of tying in two …
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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 efficient over time. We consider a sequential procurement design problem …
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investigate the impact this change in procurement contracts has on efficiency. Focusing on coal mines, we find that those selling …
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What are the dynamic consequences of comprehensive integration shocks? The answer to this question appears all but trivial. We set up a dynamic macroeconomic model of a small open economy where both capital and labor are mobile and there are increasing returns to scale at the aggregate level....
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We study contestability in non-profit markets when non-commercial providers supply a homogeneous collective good through increasing-returns-to-scale technologies. Unlike in the case of for-profit competition, in the non-profit case the absence of price-based sales contracts means that fixed...
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In this paper, we explore the role of trade in differentiated final goods as well offshoring of tasks for inequality both within and between countries. We emphasize the distinction between managerial and production labor. Production labor is assumed to be a variable input composed of tradable...
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R&D-based growth theory suggests that a larger population size raises either the long-run rate of economic growth …
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