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• Incentives And Award Procedures: Competitive Tendering Vs. Negotiations In Procurement

  BNET - 2006-01-01

  Should the buyer of a customized good use competitive bidding or negotiation to select a contractor? To shed light on this question, the publisher offers a framework that first describes the buyer's choice of contracts, and then links this choice to the selection of competitive tendering or negotiations. The analysis...

  Tags: Incentive, University Of California At Berkeley, Procurement, Buyer, Negotiation, Free Trade, Purchasing & Procurement, Finance, Business Operations

• Outsourcing And The World Trade Organization

  BNET - 2004-03-16

  With the possible exception of the gay marriage debate, there is probably no more hotly argued issue during the U.S. presidential primaries than free trade. For years, protesters had made it very difficult for countries to hold meetings of the Word Trade Organization. Protestors complained that this international organization was...

  Tags: University Of California At Berkeley, World Trade Organization, Free Trade, Outsourcing, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

• Transatlantic Trade Conflicts and GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement

  BNET - 2002-05-28

  The paper surveys key dispute settlement reforms ushered in by the WTO, and elaborates how these likely influence US-EC disputes. This paper reports new data on all US-EC disputes at the WTO thus far, and offers a simple contrast with comparable GATT disputes. It empirically tests the argument that the...

  Tags: University Of California At Berkeley, World Trade Organization, Settlement, GATT, Dispute, Free Trade, Litigation, Finance, Business Operations