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Many auctions and procurement contests entail nontrivial bidding costs, which makes the bidders’ participation decisions endogenous to the auction design. We analyze the effect of different auction …
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This paper explores the connection between jurisdictional fragmentation and sprawl. We utilize Finnish municipal mergers as a quasi-experiment which induces exogenous variation in the number of local …
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This paper studies sustainability agreements between competitors about their use of a natural resource. A symmetric Cournot duopoly model reveals the main effects. Two types of agreements are …
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