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companies have 50% probability to win the auction; ii) the majority of winning bids come from state public companies in … economies of scale; iv) the great difference between reserve price and winning bids are partly explained by the improvements in … 40% less than the reserve price, indicating the winner's curse characteristic. …
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We study experimentally a standard four-player Hotelling game, with a uniform density of consumers and inelastic demand. The pure strategy Nash equilibrium configuration consists of two firms located at one quarter of the ``linear city'', and the other two at three quarters. We do not observe...
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We consider a leader and a subordinate he appoints who engage in team production. The public observes the organization’s performance, but is unable to determine the separate contributions of the leader and of the subordinate. The leader may therefore claim credit for the good work of his...
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companies have 50% probability to win the auction; ii) the majority of winning bids come from state public companies in … economies of scale; iv) the great difference between reserve price and winning bids are partly explained by the improvements in … 40% less than the reserve price, indicating the winner's curse characteristic. …
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Raising the public administration's efficiency is, without any doubt, one of the greatest challenges nowadays in Brazil. The State's technical and allocative efficiency dimensions necessarily require efficiency of public agencies in the acquisition of inputs for their production and supply...
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Raising the public administration's efficiency is, without any doubt, one of the greatest challenges nowadays in Brazil. The State's technical and allocative efficiency dimensions necessarily require efficiency of public agencies in the acquisition of inputs for their production and supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010406392
. This article focuses on the currently adopted prices formation model based on operation costs minimization without price …
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This paper tests two hypotheses for the overbidding behavior of the banks in the fixed rate tenders conducted by the European Central Bank from January 1999 until June 2000. One hypothesis attributes the overbidding to expectations of a future tightening of monetary policy, while the other...
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