We consider a model of preference in an asymmetric procurement auction with two suppliers. The buyer can award the contract to a preferred supplier at the bid of a competing supplier. As such, the preferred supplier has a right-of-first-refusal. The preferred supplier may be an independent firm...

In the presence of cost uncertainty, limited liability introduces the possibility of default in procurement with its associated bankruptcy costs. When financial soundness is not perfectly observable, we show that incentive compatibility implies that financially less sound contractors are...

In a procurement setting, this paper examines agreements between a buyer and one of the suppliers which would increase their joint surplus. The provisions of such agreements depend on the buyers ability to design the rules of the final procurement auction. When the buyer has no such ability,...

This paper considers the problem of designing selling procedures for substitutes (like condominium units). I show that oral, ascending auctions for the right to choose are efficient. This is a common type of auction used for the sale of real estate. Efficiency is not optimal from the seller's...

A buyer with downward sloping demand faces a number of unit supply sellers. The paper characterizes optimal auctions in this setting. For the symmetric case, a uniform auction (with price equal to lowest rejected offer) is optimal when complemented with reserve prices for different quantities...

In seiner Besprechung der 1. Auflage dieser umfangreichen Einführung in die nicht-kooperative Spieltheorie lobte Martin A. Lobeck das anschauliche Beispielmaterial und schrieb: "Die Autoren, alle Volkswirtschaftler, legen den Schwerpunkt auf die ökonomischen Anwendungen der Spieltheorie und...

Das vorliegende Buch ist ein einführender Text in die nicht-kooperative Spieltheorie, der insbesondere für Studenten geeignet ist, die Freude an präziser Modellierung haben. Neben den Grundlagen der Normalform- und Extensivformspiele werden Themen aus der Verhandlungstheorie, der Theorie der...