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The Impact of Scoring Weights on Price and Quality Outcomes : An Application to the Procurement of Welfare-to-Work Contracts
Koning, Pierre - 2013
This paper assesses the effects of changes in scoring weights in auctions, using a unique sample of biddings of private Welfare-to-Work (WTW) organizations to reintegrate groups of unemployed and disabled workers. WTW-organizations did not only bid on prices, but also received points for three...
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Building Political Collusion : Evidence from Procurement Auctions
Coviello, Decio - 2010
We investigate the relationship between the time politicians stay in office and the functioning of public procurement. To this purpose, we collect a data set on the Italian municipal governments and all the procurement auctions they administered between 2000 and 2005. Identification is achieved...
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Lotteries vs. All-Pay Auctions in Fair and Biased Contests
Epstein, Gil S. - 2012
-type endogenously determined lottery is always superior to an all-pay-auction; it yields larger expected efforts (revenues) for the … optimal lottery is equal to his expected payoff under the optimal all-pay auction …
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The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment
Chatterji, Aaron - 2013
In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...
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Empirical Evidence on the Effectiveness of Social Public Procurement Policy : The Case of the Swiss Apprenticeship Training System
Strupler, Mirjam - 2016
In this paper we assess the effectiveness of a social public procurement policy in Switzerland that gives firms that train apprentices a preferential treatment. We estimate the effectiveness of this social procurement policy on a firm's training participation, training intensity, and training...
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Research Funding and Regional Economies
Goldschlag, Nathan - 2016
Public support of research typically relies on the notion that universities are engines of economic development, and that university research is a primary driver of high wage localized economic activity. Yet the evidence supporting that notion is based on aggregate descriptive data, rather than...
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Do Gun Buybacks Save Lives? Evidence from Panel Data
Leigh, Andrew - 2010
In 1997, Australia implemented a gun buyback program that reduced the stock of firearms by around one-fifth. Using differences across states in the number of firearms withdrawn, we test whether the reduction in firearms availability affected firearm homicide and suicide rates. We find that the...
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Add-On Pricing, Naive Consumers, and the Hidden Welfare Costs of Education
Kosfeld, Michael - 2011
Previous research shows that firms shroud high add-on prices in competitive markets with naive consumers leading to inefficiency. We analyze the effects of regulatory intervention via educating naive consumers on equilibrium prices and welfare. Our model allows firms to shroud, unshroud, or...
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Politico-Economic Causes of Labor Regulation in the United States : Rent Seeking, Alliances, Raising Rivals' Costs (Even Lowering One's Own?), and Interjurisdictional Competition
Addison, John T. - 2006
This paper offers an eclectic survey of the political economy of labor regulation in the United States at federal and … review, and interjurisdictional competition as well as the implications of union decline. Our analysis should help dispel any …
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Labor Market Concentration and Competition Policy Across the Atlantic
Araki, Satoshi; Bassanini, Andrea; Green, Andrew; … - 2022
of enforcement activity by European competition authorities in labor markets relative to the US. While enforcement action … competition enforcement in labor markets. The article identifies sectors and practices that may be scrutinized with priority by … European competition authorities and proposes a mix of enforcement, merger control and well-targeted policy and regulatory …
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