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Competition among producers within an integrated electricity system is impeded by any limited transmission capacity there may be at its borders. Two alternative market mechanisms have recently been designed to organize the allocation of scarce transmission capacity at cross-border level : (i)...
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This paper explores two ideas to enhance the performance of agri-environmental contracting schemes: linking contract payments to environmental outcomes and putting the contracts up for tender. This paper investigates whether there are any gains to be had by combining the benefits of both...
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Competition among producers within an integrated electricity system is impeded by any limited transmission capacity there may be at its borders. Two alternative market mechanisms have recently been designed to organize the allocation of scarce transmission capacity at cross-border level: (i) the...
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The majority of reverse auctions for procurement use a single-attribute (price) format while providing constraints on …
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In recent years, there has been a growing interest in policy applications of different auction systems. This paper reports on a series of experiments that were used to design and implement an auction in a unique policy-making environment. In April, 2000, the Georgia legislature passed a unique...
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Research on bidding in auctions has generally relied on the assumption of self-interested bidders. This work relaxes … that assumption in the context of charity auctions. As understanding charitable motives has important implications for … and the strength of these motives. We carry out three controlled field experiments consisting of real-life auctions …
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and services. Experimental auctions are a promising method for acquiring such information considering that they are … conduct these with a representative sample. While most research on experimental auctions relies on laboratory experiments with … students as participants, more recently, experimental auctions in the field have become increasingly important. In this paper …
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