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When can lotteries improve public procurement processes?
Estache, Antonio; Foucart, Renaud; Serebrisky, Tomás - 2022
and rule-based auction procurement procedures. We show that adopting a two stage approach in which bureaucrats first …
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The determinants of suppliers' performance in e-procurement : evidence from the Italian government's e-procurement platform
Albano, Gian Luigi; Dini, Federico; Zampino, Roberto; … - 2008
also commonly held that the adoption of e-procurement solutions can be effective in pursuing such an objective. To this end …, we analyze the transactions completed in the period 2004-2007 through the Italian Government's e-procurement platform …, that is, the marketplace managed by the Italian Public Procurement Agency (Consip S.p.A.). Although descriptive statistics …
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Equilibrium in scoring auctions
Asker, John; Cantillon, Estelle - 2004
This paper studies multi-attribute auctions in which a buyer seeks to procure a complex good and evaluate offers using a quasi-linear scoring rule. Suppliers have private information about their costs, which is summarized by a multi-dimensional type. The scoring rule reduces the multidimensional...
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Bidding for incompete contracts
Bajari, Patrick L.; Houghton, Stephanie; Tadelis, Steve - 2004
When procurement contracts are incomplete, they are frequently changed after the contract is awarded to the lowest …
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Optimal procurement auction for a buyer with downward sloping demand : more simple economics
Burguet, Roberto - 2004
A buyer with downward slopping 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...
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Do civil servants respond to behavioral interventions? : a field experiment
Scartascini, Carlos G.; Zamora, Paula - 2021
Introducing financial incentives to increase productivity in the public sector tends to be politically and bureaucratically cumbersome, particularly in developing countries. Behavioral interventions could be a low-cost alternative, both politically and financially, although evidence of their...
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The importance of clarity : impacts of Colombia's Lenguaje Claro Program on reducing administrative burdens
Cuesta, Ana; Reyes, Angela; Roseth, Benjamin - 2019
Citizens confront multiple challenges when attempting to access public services. This article focuses on an aspect yet unaddressed by existing literature on administrative burdens: the complexity of the written language used by government agencies in Latin America. It presents an impact...
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Bidding for complex projects : evidence from the acquisitions of IT services
Albano, Gian Luigi; Dini, Federico; Zampino, Roberto - 2008
suppliers' bidding behavior in procurement auctions for complex IT services, we find results that are consistent with theory. We … appropriately incorporate buyers' complex price/quality preferences in the tender design. -- Procurement Auctions ; Scoring Rules …
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Screening adaptive cartels
Ortner, Juan; Chassang, Sylvain; Kawai, Kei; … - 2022
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International sourcing, product complexity and intellectual property rights
Naghavi, Alireza; Spies, Julia; Toubal, Farid - 2011
In this paper, we propose the technological complexity of a product and the level of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) protection to be the co-determinants of the mode through which multinational firms purchase their goods. We study the choice between intra-firm trade and outsourcing given...
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