De Silva, Dakshina and Kosmopoulou, Georgia and Pagel, Beatrice and Peeters, Ronald (2013) The Impact of Timing on Bidding Behavior in Procurement Auctions of Contracts with Private Costs. Review of Industrial Organization, 42 (3). pp. 321-343. ISSN 0889-938X
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We provide a comparison of bidding behavior between multi-round and single-round auctions considering bid lettings for asphalt construction contracts that are known to have primarily private costs. Using a reduced-form difference-in-difference approach as well as the nonparametric estimation technique that was proposed by Racine and Li (J Econom 119(1):99–130, 2004) we find that bidding is more aggressive in a sequential multi-round setting than in a simultaneous single-round format. We explore potential causes for the bidding difference across formats that are related to synergies and the level of bidder participation.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | Review of Industrial Organization |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Multi-unit auctions ; Procurement auctions |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
| Departments: | Lancaster University Management School > Economics |
| ID Code: | 58105 |
| Deposited By: | ep_importer_pure |
| Deposited On: | 03 Sep 2012 13:37 |
| Refereed?: | Yes |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 13 May 2013 11:33 |
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| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/58105 |
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