[eng] Awarding Contracts According to the Best Bids in Economic Terms by Florence Naegelen . This article examines problems arising from the criterion for determining the best bids in tenders where the quality of products can be observed. The optimum procedure is one where bidders can provide...

[fre] La réglementation hospitalière : tarification par pathologie ou achat de soins ? par Michel Mougeot, Florence Naegelen . De nombreux pays ont mis en place des mécanismes incitatifs pour maîtriser des dépenses de santé. La tarification par pathologie repose sur une logique de...

[spa] El arbitraje calidad-precio en los procedimientos de licitación, . Florence Naegelen.. . En numerosos casos, para atribuir los contratos públicos es preciso comparar las ofertas transmitidas por las empresas utilizando un criterio que intègre la calidad y el precio propuestos. En el...

In most health care systems where a prospective payment system is implemented, an outlier payment is used to cover the hospitals' unusually high costs. When the hospital chooses its cost reduction effort before observing a patient's severity, we show that the best outlier payment is based on the...

In this paper, we drop the symmetry assumption in a model of first price procurement auction. We consider the case of two groups of bidders whose costs are drawn from two different uniform distributions. Conditions of existence of a common minimum bid are exhibited and bayesian equilibrium...