I study the interaction between optimal procurement and outsourcing of production in small industries. First, two … sellers decide about outsourcing. By outsourcing, a seller loses information about the costs of producing to his supplier …. Then the buyer designs the procurement mechanism and sellers who outsourced production subcontract with their respective …

We consider the problem faced by a procurement agency that runs a mechanism for constructing an assortment of … differentiated products with posted prices, from which heterogeneous consumers buy their most preferred alternative. Procurement … take this form. When choosing the assortment, the procurement agency must optimize the tradeoff between offering a richer …

We present a new dynamic auction for procurement problems where payments are bounded by a hard budget constraint and …

This paper considers procurement auctions with costly bidding when the auctioneer is unable to commit himself to …