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  • Research
    • industrial & health economics
      • auctions & multiple sourcing
      • health economics
    • public & political economics
      • lobbying
      • voting
      • country formation
    • contest theory
      • affirmative action
      • endogenous contest
      • strategic analysis
      • contest success functions
      • winner-pay contests
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affirmative action

Supplier Diversity Before the Time of Cholera

February 11, 2020April 9, 2020 ~ matthiasdahm

The most recent version is here: SSRN Working Paper No. 3572009 (April 2020).

Procurement programs often aim to rely on a diverse pool of suppliers, besides achieving cost effectiveness. We propose complementing a share auction for dual sourcing with affirmative action to create an endogenous set-aside for a high-cost supplier. Continue reading →

Dual Sourcing with Price Discovery

April 19, 2015April 24, 2019 ~ matthiasdahm

with J Alcalde, Games and Economic Behavior, 2019, DOI

The most recent unpublished version is here: DualSourcingR3 (February 2019).

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Reverse auctions are considered a fast and inexpensive price discovery tool to award procurement contracts and it is often desirable to award contracts to more than one supplier. Continue reading →

Semi-Targeted All-Pay Auctions: A Partial Exclusion Principle

April 19, 2015April 24, 2019 ~ matthiasdahm

International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2018, DOI

The most recent unpublished version is here: SemiTargetedAllPay (September 2018).

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This paper studies the effects of a specific affirmative action policy in complete information all-pay auctions when players differ in ability. Continue reading →

Affirmative Action Through Extra Prizes

April 19, 2015April 24, 2019 ~ matthiasdahm

with P Esteve-González, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, DOI

The most recent version is here: DahmEsteveExtraPrizes (June 2016).

Some affirmative action policies establish that a set of disadvantaged competitors has access to an extra prize. We analyse the effects of creating an extra prize by reducing the prize in the main competition. Continue reading →

Competition for Procurement Shares

April 4, 2015May 30, 2015 ~ matthiasdahm

with J Alcalde, Games and Economic Behavior, 2013, DOI

We propose a new procurement procedure that allocates shares of the total amount to be procured depending on the bids of suppliers. Continue reading →

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