Kostamis, Dimitris; Beil, Damian R.; Duenyas, Izak - 2006
costs of all suppliers by running a descending open-bid auction, or conceal them by running a first price sealed-bid auction … decisions: price, which is bid by the supplier; and a fixed quality adjustment cost, which is included by the buyer to capture … non-price factors such as a supplier's quality and reliability. Suppliers know only their own true production cost and …