Resident Bid Preference, Affiliation, and Procurement Competition: Evidence from New Mexico
In public procurement auctions, governments routinely offer preferences to qualified firms in the form of bid discounts. Previous studies on bid discounting do not account for affiliation – a form of cost dependence between bidders that is likely to occur in a public procurement environment. Utilizi...
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
2019
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