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Essays on Procurement with Information Asymmetry.
Hu, Bin - 2011
Sourcing, once seen as a tactical function of vertically integrated firms, has today become strategic for firms that now rely on extensive, vertically disintegrated supply chains. Vertical disintegration leads to complex relationships within a supply chain; for example, dependence between firms...
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Improving Operations at Manheim Seattle
Fetic, Sanin; Gordillo, Alejandro; Gouws, Jacques; … - 2008
77 auction sites. Because of the company-wide implications of these analyses, the group will reprise its report at the …
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Asymptotic Properties of Equilibrium in Discriminatory and Uniform Price IPV Multi-Unit Auctions
Katzman, Brett E. - 2009
This paper confronts the tractability problems that accompany IPV auction models with multi-unit bidder demands …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009458995
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Auctions with a Buy Price: The Case of Reference-Dependent Preferences
Shunda, Nicholas - 2007
In an auction with a buy price, the seller provides bidders with an option to end the auction early by accepting a … transaction at a posted price. The "Buy-It-Now" option on eBay is a leading example of an auction with a buy price. This paper … develops a model of an auction with a buy price in which bidders use the auction's reserve price and buy price to formulate a …
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Asymmetrische Information, Beteiligungsfinanzierung und drohende Überschuldung
Braun, Thomas - 2005
Der vorliegende Beitrag befasst sich mit dem Zusammenwirken von zwei externen Effekten, die jeweils für sich eine effiziente Kapitalallokation behindern können.Zum Einen geht es darum, dass unter Umständen an sich Erfolg versprechende Investitionsgelegenheiten nur deswegen nicht realisiert...
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Privacy Patterns for Online Interactions
Cranor, Lorrie Faith; Romanowsky, Sasha; Hong, Jason; … - 2006
A proper security architecture is an essential part of implementing robust and reliable networked applications. Security patterns have shown how reoccurring problems can be best solved with proven solutions. However, while they are critical for ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and...
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On the optimal design of income support and agri-environmental regulation
Bontems, Philippe - 2008
In this paper, we develop a model of regulation for a set of heterogenous farmers whose production yields to environmental externalities. The goal of the regulator is first to offer some income support depending on collective preferences towards income redistribution and second to internalize...
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Quality Certification by Geographical Indications, Trademarks and Firm Reputation
Menapace, Luisa; Moschini, GianCarlo - 2010
We study firm reputation as a mechanism to assure product quality in perfectly competitive marketsin a context in which both certification and trademarks are available. Shapiro’s (1983) model ofreputation is extended to reflect both collective and firm-specific reputations, and this framework...
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Green payment programs, asymmetric information and the role of fixed costs
Arguedas, C.; Meijerink, Gerdien W.; van Soest, Daan P. - 2008
Many conservation programs offer financialcompensation to farmers in exchange for socially desiredservices, such as soil conservation or biodiversity protection.Realization of the conservation objective at minimum costrequires payments to just cover the extra costs incurred byeach individual...
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Emergence of Financial Intermediaries in Electronic Markets: The Case of Online P2P Lending
Berger, Sven C.; Gleisner, Fabian - 2009
We analyze the role of intermediaries in electronic markets using detailed data of more than 14,000 originated loans on an electronic P2P (peer-to-peer) lending platform. In such an electronic credit market, lenders bid to supply a private loan. Screening of potential borrowers and the...
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