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that might fail to deliver. The buyer conducts a procurement auction to determine contract suppliers and can choose between … plays an important role in procurement practice but attracted little attention in the academic analysis of procurement … auctions. Academic research on multi-sourcing procurement auction typically analyzes these auctions as stand-alone events. In …
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We analyze the problem of a buyer who purchases a long-term project from one of several suppliers. A changing state of the world influences the costs of the suppliers. Complete contracts conditioning on all future realizations of the state are infeasible. We show that contractual incompleteness...
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question in the context of the US federal procurement of services and works, by combining contract-level data on procurement …
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and quantifies the impact of procurement spending - a specific component of G - on firm survival. We find that firms that …
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procurement. Our identification strategy leverages a legislative change in Italy that mandated centralized purchases for a sub …
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We consider a budget-constrained mechanism designer who selects an optimal set of projects to maximize her utility. Projects may differ in their value for the designer, and their cost is private information. In this allocation problem, the quantity of procured projects is endogenously determined...
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For the procurement of complex goods the early exchange of information is important to avoid costly renegotiation. If …
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We analyze the problem of a buyer who chooses a supplier for a long-term relationship via an auction. The buyer lacks commitment to not renegotiate the terms of the contract in the long run. Thus, suppliers are cautious about the information revealed during the auction. We show theoretically and...
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improvement and introduction of innovations, this text offers information on defense procurement recently undertaken and analyzes …
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