This series of discussions presents commentaries and a rejoinder on the economic perspectives on branding arising from Moorthy (Moorthy S. (2012) Can brand extension signal product quality? Marketing Sci. 31(5):756-770)

In public procurement a temporal separation of award and actual contracting can frequently be observed. In this paper we give an explanation for this institutional setting. For incomplete procurement contracts we show that such a separation may increase efficiency. We show that efficiency can be...

In public procurement a temporal separation of award and actual contracting can frequently be observed. In this paper the authors give an explanation for this institutional setting. For incomplete procurement contracts they show that such may increase efficiency. They show that efficiency can be...