Contracting in intermediate markets

Markets and Contracting in Health Care

Competitive Options, Supply Contracting, and Electronic Markets

T paper develops a framework for analyzing business-to-business (B2B) transactions and supply chain management based on integrating contract procurement markets with spot markets using capacity options and forwards. The framework is motivated by the emergence of B2B exchanges in several industrial sectors to facilitate such integrated contract and spot procurement. In the framework developed, a...

Policy based contracting in semantic web service markets

Web services generalize the idea of the Web beyond the exchange of simple Web pages in order to enable the provision of a broad range of different services. By composing Web services, cross-organizational and collaborative business processes can be realized in a highly dynamic and flexible way, which is particularly important if services have to be automatically procured at runtime. However, ac...

How does renewables competition affect forward contracting in electricity markets?

Higher renewables penetration reduces the incentive of conventional electricity generators to sell forward production. This can undermine the role of forward contracting in mitigating market power. More renewable energy raises wholesale electricity prices in states of the world where its capacity utilization is low due to intermittency.

Medicare contracting risk/Medicare risk contracting: a life-cycle view from twelve markets.

OBJECTIVE To examine the evolution of the Medicare HMO program from 1996 to 2001 in 12 nationally representative urban markets by exploring how the separate and confluent influences of government policy initiatives and health plans' strategic aims and operational experience affected the availability of HMOs to Medicare beneficiaries. DATA SOURCE Qualitative data gathered from 12 nationally re...