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Technological sovereignty as ability, not autarky
March, Christoph; Schieferdecker, Ina - 2021
Aspirations towards technological sovereignty increasingly pervade the political debate. Yet, an ambiguous definition leaves the exact goal of those aspirations and the policies to fulfill them unclear. This leaves room for partly particularly negative interpretations, such as equating the...
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Complementarity of innovation policies in the Brazilian industry : an econometric study
Strube, Eduardo; Resende, Marcelo - 2009
The paper aims at assessing discrete complementarities in innovation policies in the context of the Brazilian industry in 2003. The paper considers the approach advanced by Mohnen and and Röller [European Economic Review, 2005] that focuses on supermodularity and submodularity tests for...
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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 separated into an investment game and a project game, the first game to be played before nature determines the actual real-izations of benefit and costs of the project, the second...
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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 money that they offer. Sellers are privately informed on the offered quality of the technology or good. We assume that the procurer cannot perfectly identify the best offer. Thus,...
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Auctions vs. negotiations : the case of favoritism
Gretschko, Vitali; Wambach, Achim - 2012
We compare two commonly used mechanisms in procurement: auctions and negotiations. The execution of the procurement mechanism is delegated to an agent of the buyer. The agent has private information about the buyer's preferences and may collude with one of the sellers. We provide a precise...
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Discrimination in dynamic procurement design with learning-by-doing
Barbosa, Klenio; Boyer, Pierre C. - 2012
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...
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Foreign bidders going once, going twice... : protection in government procurement auctions
Cole, Matthew T.; Davies, Ronald B. - 2014
Until recently, government procurement bidding processes have generally favored domestic firms by awarding the contract to a domestic firm even if a foreign firm tenders a lower bid, so long as the difference between the two is sufficiently small. This has been replaced by an agreement...
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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 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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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 … U.S. Civil War and World War I led to substantial increases in the quantity of prosthetic device patenting relative to … on improving aspects of the production process, while World War I did not, consistent with the United States applying a …
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Political donations, public procurement and government efficiency
Titl, Vitezslav; De Witte, Kristof; Geys, Benny - 2019
Firms' political donations can induce distortions in the allocation of public procurement contracts. In this article, we employ an advanced non-parametric efficiency model to study the public sector (cost) efficiency implications of such distortions. Using a unique dataset covering the Czech...
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