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Bidding For Incomplete Contracts: An Empirical Analysis Of Adaptation Costs.
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- 2007-01-08
Public and private sector procurement contracts are often incomplete because the initial plans and specifications of the procured goods or services are changed and refined after the contract is awarded to the winning bidder. As a result, final costs differ from the winning bid and may include significant adaptation and...
Bidding For Incomplete Contracts: An Empirical Analysis Of Adaptation Costs
BNET
- 2006-12-12
Public and private sector procurement contracts are often incomplete because the initial plans and specifications of the procured goods or services are changed and refined after the contract is awarded to the winning bidder. As a result, final costs differ from the winning bid and may include significant adaptation and...
Risk Management With Stress Testing: Implications For Portfolio Selection And Asset Pricing
BNET
- 2006-06-22
Stress Testing ST is often used by banks and securities firms to set risk exposure limits. Accordingly, a model is examined with an agent who faces K binding ST constraints and another who does not. Four results were obtained. First, the constrained agent's optimal portfolio exhibits (K+2)-fund separation. Second, the...
Growth And Intellectual Property
BNET
- 2006-02-01
Intellectual Property IP protection involves a trade-off between the undesirability of monopoly and the desirable encouragement of creation and innovation. Optimal policy depends on the quantitative strength of these two forces. Quantitative assessment of current IP policies is given. This paper focuses particularly on the scale of the market, showing...
Sale-Backs in Bankruptcy
BNET
- 2005-11-01
The aim of this paper is to analyze the desirability of a frequent outcome of bankruptcy sales, that a former owner or manager of a bankrupt firm buys back the assets and gets a fresh start. The focus of this paper is on how this possible outcome affects bidding by...
From Invention To Innovation: Conversion Ability In Product Development
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- 2005-09-03
The ability to convert inputs into outputs is a critical determinant of success in many fields of endeavor. This research studies the ability of firms to convert ideas into products, i.e., their conversion ability. Specifically the authors address the question: Why are some firms better at conversion than others? As...
Predicting the Construction of New Highway Links
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- 2004-02-23
This paper developed a model to predict the location of new highway construction based on the surrounding conditions of the new link, the estimated cost of construction, and a budget constraint. A new process for identifying potential construction projects is developed. The methodology used here reduces the number of possible...
The Corporate Governance Of Banks
BNET
- 2003-07-21
This paper examines the corporate governance of banks. When banks efficiently mobilize and allocate funds, this lowers the cost of capital to firms, boosts capital formation, and stimulates productivity growth. Thus, weak governance of banks reverberates throughout the economy with negative ramifications for economic development. After reviewing the major governance...
His or Hers? Employer-Based Health Insurance Offers and Two-Earner Households
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- 2003-04-01
This paper uses data from the Household Component of the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey to explore whether or not two-earner households appear to make joint job choices with respect to employer-based health insurance. It provides some evidence that the household choice set is not exogenous but that, instead, workers...
Managing Outsourcing
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- 2003-01-01
Outsourcing involves hiring an outside company to deliver some goods or processes, which an organization finds it costly to produce in-house. The different types of outsourcing include database management, application services, and network operations. Reasons for outsourcing include cost savings, quality improvement, and focus on core competencies. The paper examines...
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