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What are the priorities of bureaucrats? : evidence from conjoint experiments with procurement officials
Tukiainen, Janne; Blesse, Sebastian; Bohne, Albrecht; … - 2023 - This version: December 6, 2022
preferences of 900+ real-world public procurement officials in Finland and Germany. This is an important pursuit as they report … importance of multiple features of procurement outcomes. Officials prioritize avoiding unexpectedly high prices but not seeking …
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Auctions and corruption
Lengwiler, Yvan; Wolfstetter, Elmar - 2000
In many auctions, the auctioneer is an agent of the seller. This delegation invites corruption. In this paper we propose a model of corruption, examine how corruption affects the auction game, how the anticipation of corruption affects bidding, and how it altogether changes the revenue ranking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397659
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Probabilistic procurement auctions
Giebe, Thomas; Schweinzer, Paul - 2013
We analyse procurement auctions in which sellers are distinguished on the basis of the ratios of quality per unit of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009765519
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Optimal cost overruns : procurement auctions and renegotiation
Herweg, Fabian; Schwarz, Marco A. - 2016 - This version: March 18, 2016
Cost overrun is ubiquitous in public procurement. We argue that this can be the result of a constraint optimal award …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447525
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Auctions when bidders prepare by investing in ideas
Jeitschko, Thomas D.; Wolfstetter, Elmar G. - 2000
We consider auction games where, prior to the auction, bidders spend resources to increase their valuations. The market game is solved by solving an equivalent auxiliary social choice problem. We show that standard auctions are fully efficient, whereas reserve price requirements entail a double...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781529
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Inefficient R&D in public procurement : negative consequences of a separation between award and actual contract
Bös, Dieter - 1999
In public procur ement a temporal separation between award and actual contract allows private entrepreneurs who did not get the award to sue to become contractor. Hence, not only the award-winning entrepreneur, but also the losers will engage in relationship-specific investments. Unfortunately,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781703
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Demand shocks, procurement policies, and the nature of medical innovation : evidence from wartime prosthetic device patents
Clemens, Jeffrey; Rogers, Parker - 2020
We analyze wartime prosthetic device patents to investigate how demand and procurement policy can shape medical … more cost-conscious procurement model during the Civil War. Third, we find that inventors emphasized dimensions of product … historical record, across wars. We conclude that procurement environments can significantly shape the scientific problems with …
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Delegation of regulation
Kundu, Tapas; Nilssen, Tore - 2017
We develop a model to discuss a government's incentives to delegate to bureaucrats the regulation of an industry. The industry consists of a polluting firm with private information about its production technology. Implementing a transfer-based regulation policy requires the government to make...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011700470
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Indirect savings from public procurement centralization
Lotti, Clarissa; Muço, Arieda; Spagnolo, Giancarlo; … - 2023
Centralization of public procurement can lower prices for the government's direct purchase of goods and services. This … paper focuses on indirect savings. Public administrations that do not procure directly through a central procurement agency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013542947
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Bureaucrats and public procurement
Bös, Dieter - 2001
This paper deals with a Niskanen type of public-procurement agency. It is shown that the procurement game should be … which refers to both investment and production. Welfare-optimal procurement of the project can be attained under relatively …
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