The Japanese Ministry of Environment is promoting green purchasing policies across all levels of Japanese government. A primary reason is that green purchasing policies have the potential to significantly reduce carbon impacts across the globe and can help Japan achieve its carbon emissions...

Recent econometric studies only emphasize the role of longterm demand expectations and technological capability. They neglect the impact of buyer market structure on innovative efforts of input suppliers....

Vorliegendes Dokument verschafft einen Überblick über die Konsequenzen bei Wegfall des Rabattgesetz (RabattG) und der Zugabeverordnung (ZugabeVO).

This note analyses investment and risk-taking in a simple agency model of public regulation/procurement borrowed from Laffont & Tirole (1993). We show that the principal will overinvest or underinvest depending on whether investment is marginally more productive in bad or in good states. Due to...

This paper introduces a bi-objective winner determination problem which arises in the procurement oftransportation contracts via combinatorial auctions. The problem is modelled as an extension to the setcovering problem and considers the minimisation of the total procurement costs and the...

Effective provision of public goods is a key determinant of quality of life. Conventional approaches to poverty measurement look only at private goods, butthis view is too narrow. Access to safe drinking water, sanitation, transport,medical care, and schools is essential both as a direct...

A government agency wants an infrastructure-based public service to be provided. Our experimental study compares two different modes of provision. In a public-private partnership, the two tasks of building the infrastructure and operating it are delegated to one private contractor (a...