data between 2008 and 2018. For construction auctions, we also rely on bid-level data to inform a regression discontinuity …

settings in which the class of optimal mechanisms has a deferred acceptance auction representation which allows an … implementation with a descending-clock auction. Only in the case of symmetric projects do price clocks descend synchronously such …

-bid auction and three di erent descending-clock auctions. We assume that a bidder's willingness-to-accept exceeds his willingness …The targeted design of auctions has to take behavioral regularities into account. This paper explores whether … procurement auction formats can take advantage of bidders' willingness-to-pay-willingness-to-accept disparity. In a laboratory …

largest rms bidding in provincial road paving procurement auctions in Quebec between 2007 and 2015. I use the police … cartel. I find that after this date, the two suspected firms i) were more likely to bid in the same auction and ii) submitted … significantly lower bids when they competed in the same auction. A structural model of entry and bidding shows that if the firms had …

procedure: The procurer awards the contract via a price-only auction and cannot commit not to renegotiate. If cost differences … price exceeds the initial price. Moreover, the procurer cannot benefit from using a multi-dimensional auction, i.e., under … the optimal scoring auction each supplier proposes the standard design. …

costs are flaws in the initial design. If the project is procured with a price-only auction, sellers who spotted some of the …

Auctions with endogenous rationing have been introduced to stimulate competition. Such (procurement) auctions reduce …