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Bid Roundness Under Collusion in Japanese Procurement Auctions
Ishii, Rieko - In: Review of Industrial Organization 44 (2014) 3, pp. 241-254
We analyze the “roundness level” of bids—defined as the number of zeros at the end of the bid—in public procurement auctions for construction works in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, where a bid-rigging case was filed. We hypothesize that bid rigging increases the roundness of bids through...
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Using lotteries in auctions when buyers collude
Gruyer, Nicolas - Laboratoire d'Économie et Économétrie de l'Aérien … - 2005
organized in a ”well-coordinated” cartel. After discussing the way the cartel reacts to any auction mechanism, we show that if …This paper studies the optimal auction for a seller who is bound to sell a single item to one of two potential buyers … the cartel pay to get an efficient allocation or randomly allocating the item. We then discuss the way to implement this …
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Optimal Auctions when a seller is bound to sell to collusive bidders (new version of "using lotteries ...")
Gruyer, Nicolas - Laboratoire d'Économie et Économétrie de l'Aérien … - 2008
in a `well-coordinated' cartel. I show that, even though the seller cannot deter collusion, he can optimally accommodate …
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Essays on Econometric Evaluation of Education Outcomes in Developing Countries
Metzler, Johannes - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
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Can econometric analysis make (agricultural) economics a hard science? Critical remarks and implications for economic methodology
Petrick, Martin - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2004
) claims to follow and expresses some serious doubt that econometrics in particular can make economics a hard science …
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A social power index for hierarchically structured populations of economic agents
van den Brink, J.R.; Gilles, R.P. - Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management - 1990
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The econometrics of the Holy Grail : A critique (Revised version)
Keuzenkamp, H.A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1995
examined. It is argued that this philosophy is not able to transform econometrics from `alchemy' to `science'. …
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The Role of Spatial Interaction in Social Networks
Illenberger, Johannes; Nagel, Kai; Flötteröd, Gunnar - In: Networks and Spatial Economics 13 (2013) 3, pp. 255-282
This article addresses the role of spatial interaction in social networks. We analyse empirical data describing a network of leisure contacts and show that the probability to accept a person as a contact scales in distance with ∼ d <Superscript> − 1.4</Superscript>. Moreover, the analysis reveals that the number...</superscript>
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Impact of spatial effect on volatility of trade
Zarra-Nezhad, Mansour; Mansouri, Amin - In: Asian Journal of Empirical Research 4 (2014) 7, pp. 358-368
The main objective of this study is to evaluate the spatial volatility of trade based on the Spatial Panel data Econometric Method and Wavelet Smoothing. The negative spatial dependents are estimated. So that, an increase by one percent in trade volatility and unknown volatility in neighboring...
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Convergence and the effects of spatial interaction
Niebuhr, Annekatrin - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2000
Since the beginning of the 1990s, the issue of income convergence has received considerable attention in economic research. Although a vast number of empirical studies has emerged, evidence on the role of spatial interaction is still rather scarce. The present paper is an attempt to provide...
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