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The Contingency Thesis of Collective Bargaining Institutions
Traxler, Franz - In: CESifo DICE Report 01 (2003) 2, pp. 34-39
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Procurement Bidding in First-Price and Second-Price Sealed Bid Common Value Auctions
Lunander, Anders - 1999
Within the framework of the common value model, we examine the magnitude of the difference in expected outcome between first-price and second-price sealed bid auctions. The study is limited to two empirical specifications of bidders' signals: Weibull and normal distribution. The optimal bid...
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How to allocate Research (and other) Subsidies
Ensthaler, Ludwig; Giebe, Thomas - 2011
A budget-constrained buyer wants to purchase items from a short-listed set. Items are differentiated by observable quality and sellers have private reserve prices for their items. The buyer's problem is to select a subset of maximal quality. Money does not enter the buyer's objective function,...
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Innovation Contests with Entry Auction
Giebe, Thomas - 2010
We consider procurement of an innovation from heterogeneous sellers. Innovations are random but depend on unobservable … effort and private information. We compare two procurement mechanisms where potential sellers first bid in an auction for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334102
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Optimal Procurement Contracts with Pre-€“Project Planning
Krähmer, Daniel; Strausz, Roland - 2010
The paper studies procurement contracts with pre-project investigations in the presence of adverse selection and moral …
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A dynamic auction for multi-object procurement under a hard budget constraint
Ensthaler, Ludwig; Giebe, Thomas - 2010
We present a new dynamic auction for procurement problems where payments are bounded by a hard budget constraint and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334157
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How to allocate research (and other) subsidies
Ensthaler, Ludwig; Giebe, Thomas - 2010
A budget-constrained buyer wants to purchase items from a shortlisted set. Items are differentiated by observable quality and sellers have private reserve prices for their items. The buyer's problem is to select a subset of maximal quality. Money does not enter the buyer's objective function,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282909
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Purchasing Organization and Design: A Literature Review
Glock, Christoph H.; Hochrein, Simon - In: BuR - Business Research 4 (2011) 2, pp. 149-191
This paper presents the results of a comprehensive literature review of the organization of purchasing covering the period from 1967 to 2009. The review provides a structured overview of prior research topics and findings and identifies gaps in the existing literature that may be addressed in...
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Evolving procurement organizations: A contingency model for structural alternatives
Bals, Lydia; Laine, Jari; Mugurusi, Godfrey - 2015
Procurement has to find further levers and advance its contribution to corporate goals continuously. This places … pressure on its organization in order to facilitate its performance. Therefore, procurement organizations constantly have to … highlight the importance of taking a contingency perspective on procurement organization, understanding the internal and …
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Cartel detection in procurement markets
Hüschelrath, Kai; Veith, Tobias - 2011
authority. The results not only suggest that monitoring procurement markets through screening tools has the potential of …
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