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We present a new dynamic auction for procurement problems where payments are bounded by a hard budget constraint and …
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A budget-constrained buyer wants to purchase items from a short-listed set. Items are differentiated by observable …
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’ financial constraints are private information. The literature has recommended the use of auctions in order to reduce information … procurement problem. This auction is strategically simple, as it exhibits truthtelling in dominant strategies and satisfies ex …-post rationality, while observing the budget constraint. We test the auction in Monte-Carlo simulation and discuss its applicability …
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This paper considers procurement auctions with costly bidding when the auctioneer is unable to commit himself to …
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A budget-constrained buyer wants to purchase items from a shortlisted set. Items are differentiated by quality and …
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A principal uses security bid auctions to award an incentive contract to one among several agents, in the presence of … outperform all other auctions, although it cannot extract the entire surplus implement efficient effort. Hence, profit sharing …
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If bidders are uncertain whether the auctioneer sticks to the announced reserve, some bidders respond by not bidding, speculating that the auctioneer may revoke the reserve. However, the reserve inadvertently signals the auctioneer's type, which drives a unique separating and a multitude of...
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licensing without reducing bidders’ surplus; therefore, it is more profitable than both standard license auctions and pure …
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We consider a licensing mechanism for process innovations that combines a license auction with royalty contracts to those who lose the auction. Firms’ bids are dual signals of their cost reductions: the winning bid signals the own cost reduction to rival oligopolists, whereas the losing...
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of combining auctions and royalty contracts for losers. …
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