Procurement contracts: Theory vs. practice

International Journal of Industrial Organization

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 51-59

  Chu, Leon Yang ^a   Sappington, David E M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric information; Procurement

Indexed keywords

CONTRACTS;

ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION; CLASSIC MODELS; CONCAVE FUNCTIONS; CONVEX FUNCTIONS; OPTIMAL CONTRACTS; PROCUREMENT; PROCUREMENT CONTRACTS; PRODUCTION COSTS;

COSTS;

EID: 58149176095     PISSN: 01677187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijindorg.2008.04.001     Document Type: Article

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