Contracting for Energy Efficiency: The Diffusion of Novel Contracting Practices at Local Government Level

Variations in Local Service Delivery: Examining the Effects of State-level Factors on Local Government Contracting for Services

Energy Efficiency Contracting in Supply Chains under Asymmetric Bargaining Power

Evidence shows that suppliers refrain from investing in energy efficiency (EE) measures because they fear that a buyer with greater bargaining power will use the EE-related cost reductions to push prices down, in the purchase bargaining process, and thereby further reduce the supplier’s profit margin. Suppliers are also discouraged from EE investment by the uncertainty associated with new techn...

Does Contracting Out Increase the Efficiency of Government Programs? Evidence From Medicaid HMOs

State governments contract with health maintenance organizations (HMOs) to coordinate medical care for nearly 20 million Medicaid recipients. Identifying the causal effect of HMO enrollment on government spending and health care quality is difficult if, as is often the case, recipients have the option to enroll in a plan. To estimate the average effect of HMO enrollment, this paper exploits cou...

The past, present, and future of government contracting in healthcare.

The Logic of E-contracting The Logic of E-contracting

We consider the potential roles of formal logic in decision support systems for electronic contracting and so address the problem of representation of business process knowledge in a usable form when there are particular concerns of complexity, communicability and clarity.