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Bidding for Incompete Contracts
Bajari, Patrick; Houghton, Stephanie; Tadelis, Steven - 2004
When procurement contracts are incomplete, they are frequently changed after the contract is awarded to the lowest bidder. This results in a final cost that differs from the initial price, and may involve significant transaction costs due to renegotiation. We propose a stylized model of bidding...
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Coping with alternatives in sales organisations: Experiences from an Italian company
Perna, Andrea; Cardinali, Silvio; Gregori, Gian Luca - In: jbm - Journal of Business Market Management 6 (2013) 3, pp. 107-122
operates within the construction industry. Santarelli is a general contractor that also handles the sale and management of …
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Taming volatile high frequency data with long lag structure: An optimal filtering approach for forecasting
Drechsel, Dirk; Neuwirth, Stefan - 2016
construction investment and construction permit data. We compare our approach to different filtering techniques and show that our …
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Konjunkturprogramm kommt auf dem Bau kaum an
Gornig, Martin; Weber, Sebastian - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 48, pp. 762-769
Nach langen Jahren stagnierender und sogar rückläufiger Produktionsentwicklung folgt auf 2006 und 2007 auch 2008 eine positive Gesamtbilanz der Bauwirtschaft. Der konjunkturelle Ausblick auf das Jahr 2009 ist allerdings getrübt. Die deutsche Bauproduktion wird preisbereinigt 2009 fast...
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Infrastructure and urbanization in the People's Republic of China
Li, Zhigang - 2017
not be efficient in financing and infrastructure construction. This paper analyzes infrastructure-related institutions and … construction? How can we evaluate the performance of infrastructure development? How and to what extent should the government be … involved in infrastructure construction? …
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Energy efficiency for reinforcing steel activities in the construction of a business complex in Mexico
Esquer, Javier; Morales-Sau, Jorge Rafael; Velázquez, … - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 17 (2017) 4, pp. 637-650
Much of the energy used in the world is associated with the construction sector, and one of the ways to reduce that … results from an energy efficiency program in the construction of a business complex in Hermosillo, Mexico, particularly in the … engineers and workers help to improve the energy efficiency during the construction phase also reducing material waste …
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Measuring the Spatial Misallocation of Labor: The Returns to India-Gulf Guest Work in a Natural Experiment
Clemens, Michael A. - 2019
construction job in the United Arab Emirates, where a crisis exogenously influenced job placement. Guest work raised the return to …
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A Comparative Analysis of the Building Stock in EU and Romania
Romila, Claudiu - In: CES Working Papers 5 (2013) 1, pp. 89-99
Buildings occupy an important role in our modern society. However, the existing buildings have a very low thermal protection, leading to high levels of energy consumption making the buildings sector among the most significant CO2 source in Europe. Even if new buildings have high performance...
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Who is going to build the wall? A building trades crisis in the U.S.A.
Toppin, Ian - In: International Journal for Research in Vocational … 5 (2018) 1, pp. 64-76
The context of this study was to examine factors contributing to significant workforce shortages in building trades in the United States. As it is, recruitment of qualified skilled trades workers is becoming increasingly difficult due to lack of a pipeline of prospective workers, and training...
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Role of the construction sector and key bottlenecks to supply response in Tanzania
Kikwasi, Geraldine J.; Escalante, Cecilia - 2018
The construction sector is a key enabler for social and economic development worldwide. In Tanzania, the sector growth … and challenges in the areas of access to land, construction permits, skills, and availability of materials and equipment …
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