We study competitive awarding procedures of short haul railway passenger services in Germany from 1995 to 2011 by means of a newly collected data set. In particular, we use regression techniques to investigate the determinants of the number of bidders, the identity of the winning bidder and the...

We study competitive awarding procedures of short haul railway passenger services in Germany from 1995 to 2011 by means of a newly collected data set. In particular, we use regression techniques to investigate the determinants of the number of bidders, the identity of the winning bidder and the...

Maintaining good ratings increases the profits of sellers on online platforms. We analyze the role ofstrategic pricing for ratings management in a setting where a monopolist sells a good of unknownquality. Higher prices reduce the value for money, which on average worsens reviews. However,higher...