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Procuring survival
Cappelletti, Matilde; Giuffrida, Leonardo M. - 2021
data between 2008 and 2018. For construction auctions, we also rely on bid-level data to inform a regression discontinuity …
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Procuring survival
Cappelletti, Matilde; Giuffrida, Leonardo M.; … - 2024
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Targeted bidders in government tenders
Cappelletti, Matilde; Giuffrida, Leonardo M. - 2022
A set-aside restricts participation in procurement contests to targeted firms. Despite being widely used, its effects on actual competition and contract outcomes are ambiguous. We pool a decade of US federal procurement data to shed light on this empirical question using a two-stage approach. To...
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Optimal discounts in Green Public Procurement
Chiappinelli, Olga; Seres, Gyula - 2021
We consider a Green Public Procurement setting where the procurer provides a bid discount to environment-friendly technologies to foster their use. We assume that, before the auction, firms may switch to green technology via a publicly observable costly investment. We show that investment acts...
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Public procurement and supplier job creation : insights from auctions
Srhoj, Stjepan; Dragojević, Melko - 2021 - This draft October 4, 2021
-level. This study exploits sealed-bid PPC auctions of construction works, discontinuity in bidders' win margin and firms' daily …
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Challenges of electronic reverse auctions in construction industry : a review
Hanák, Tomáš; Marović, Ivan; Jajac, Nikša - In: Economies : open access journal 8 (2020) 1/13, pp. 1-14
The innovation of construction procurement by means of electronic reverse auctions is a controversial subject of … concerning the adoption and use of electronic reverse auctions in the light of specific features of the construction industry. A … on mutual interaction of electronic reverse auctions and long-term effects on construction project outcomes. …
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Auctions vs. negotiations : the case of favoritism ; conference paper
Gretschko, Vitali; Wambach, Achim - 2013
We compare two commonly used mechanisms in procurement: auctions and negotiations. The execution of the procurement …
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Ex-post optimal knapsack procurement
Jarman, Felix; Meisner, Vincent - 2015
We consider a budget-constrained mechanism designer who selects an optimal set of projects to maximize her utility. A project's cost is private information and its value for the designer may vary. In this allocation problem, the selection of projects - both which and how many - is endogenously...
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Optimal cost overruns : procurement auctions and renegotiation
Herweg, Fabian; Schwarz, Marco A. - 2016 - This version: March 18, 2016
Cost overrun is ubiquitous in public procurement. We argue that this can be the result of a constraint optimal award procedure when the procurer cannot commit not to renegotiate. If cost differences are more pronounced for more complex designs, it is optimal to fix a simple design ex ante and to...
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Public Procurement Auctions and Competition in Turkey
Onur, Ilke - 2012
government procurement auctions for the years 2004–2006. First, after controlling for possible endogeneity, we show that the … environment significantly decreases procurement costs in Turkey. Second, when auctions are open to foreign participation, the …
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