Abstract
This article studies procurement auctions in the public sector using game theoretical tools. The article shows that when participants in an auction are agents with low abilities (low type), as is common in the public sector, they place the same contract request. As a result, the auction mechanism will rarely produce real competition, thus making this mechanism, which limits bidders to those already within the system, ineffective for use in the public sector job market.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 247-249 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | Applied Economics Letters |
Volume | 24 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 23 Feb 2017 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Keywords
- Public sector
- asymmetry
- auctions
- procurement
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Economics and Econometrics