Optimal procurement contracts with pre-project planning

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1015-1041

  Krähmer, Daniel ^a   Strausz, Roland ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamic mechanism design; Information acquisition; Procurement

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 82155190880     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/restud/rdq033     Document Type: Article

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