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Häfner, Samuel; Taylor, Curtis R. - 2017

An entrepreneur contracts with a consultant, who is protected by limited liability, to supply information about the … probability than a bad one. The entrepreneur makes an upfront payment that the consultant can either invest in information … acquisition (work) or divert for private benefit (shirk). If the consultant works, then he privately observes an unverifiable …

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Efficient promotion of renewable energy with reverse auctions

Schäfer, Sebastian; Schulten, Lisa - 2015

Despite negative experiences with auctioning off subsidies for renewable energy in some countries, tenders are increasingly used today. We develop a reverse auction which accounts for particularities of intermittent renewable energy sources. Determining the quantity, demanded by the regulator,...

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Tender prices in local bus transport in Germany - an application of alternative regression techniques

Beck, Arne; Walter, Matthias - 2010

Competitive tendering of local bus services in Germany has received increased attention. Employing Seemingly Unrelated …

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Over- and Under-Bidding in Tendering

van den Berg, Vincent - 2013

Consider a government tendering the right to operate, for example, an airport, telecommunication network, or utility …

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Outsourcing Public Services: Ownership, Competition, Quality and Contracting

Andersson, Fredrik; Jordahl, Henrik - 2011

We survey the literature on the effects of public sector outsourcing. Guided by theory, we systematically arrange services according to the type and magnitude of their contractibility problems. Taken as a whole, the empirical literature indicates that public sector outsourcing generally reduces...

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