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Investment and Risk-Taking in Procurement and Regulation
Hubert, Franz - 2003
This note analyses investment and risk-taking in a simple agency model of public regulation/procurement borrowed from …
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Procurement Tools for AI Regulation by Contract. Not the Sharpest in the Shed
Sanchez-Graells, Albert - 2023
focus is now put on the procedural and substantive procurement tools that could be used for AI regulation by contract to … procurement that could be activated to create or enforce digital regulation requirements. It primarily seeks to ascertain whether … procurement tools could effectively operationalise digital regulation goals without simply transferring regulatory decisions to …
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It is never too late : optimal penalty for investment delay in Italian public procurement contracts
D'Alpaos, Chiara; Moretto, Michele; Valbonesi, Paola; … - 2009
We provide a general framework in which to determine the optimal penalty fee inducing the contractor to respect the contracted delivery date in public procurement contracts (PPCs). We do this by developing a real option model that enables us to investigate the contractor's value of investment...
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Government spending composition in a simple model of Schumpeterian growth
Wiederhold, Simon - 2009
This paper investigates the relevance of government purchasing behavior for innovation-based economic growth. We construct a parsimonious Schumpeterian growth model in which demand from the public sphere can effectively alter the economy's rate of technological change. We incorporate results of...
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Auctions vs. negotiations : the case of favoritism
Gretschko, Vitali; Wambach, Achim - 2012
We compare two commonly used mechanisms in procurement: auctions and negotiations. The execution of the procurement mechanism is delegated to an agent of the buyer. The agent has private information about the buyer's preferences and may collude with one of the sellers. We provide a precise...
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Discrimination in dynamic procurement design with learning-by-doing
Barbosa, Klenio; Boyer, Pierre C. - 2012
Discriminatory programs that favor local and small firms in government procurement are common in many countries. This paper studies the long-run impact of procurement discrimination on market structure and future competition in industries where learning-by-doing makes incumbent firms more...
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Procurement and predation : dynamic sourcing from financially constrained suppliers
Arve, Malin - 2013
This paper studies the interaction between financially constrained and financially strong firms on a procurement market. It characterizes and discusses a procurement agency's optimal response when faced with financially asymmetric firms. By considering a dynamic setting, both present and future...
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Public procurement in the presence of capital taxation
Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 1999
The paper considers governments' public procurement decision as a way of influencing industry structure. In a federation in which capital is mobile and capital taxation is harmonized, a home bias in public procurement can potentially be explained as an effort to increase the capital intensity of...
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Self-correcting mechanisms in public procurement : why award and contract should be separated
Bös, Dieter; Kolmar, Martin - 2000
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...
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An Economic Analysis of Debarment
Auriol, Emmanuelle - 2015
With a view to reducing the consequences of corruption in public procurement, many governments have introduced debarment of suppliers found guilty of corruption and some other forms of crime. This paper explores the market effects of debarment on public procurement. Debarment is found to make...
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