We consider a Green Public Procurement setting where the procurer provides bid discount to environment-friendly technologies foster their use. assume that, before auction, firms may switch green technology via publicly observable costly investment. show that investment acts as signaling device. This mitigates effect of incomplete information on firms’ costs, thereby triggering more competitive ...

This study examines War’s Inefficiency Puzzle in a resource bargaining model, where the nature of (e.g., water or land) can influence division valuation. In an embedded conflict contest model equilibrium constitutes disagreement point. We first show that holds across all winner-take-all forms generalized family given standard (in shadow conflict) framework. When introducing discounts, we find c...

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The objectives of the study were to determine how factors affecting the selling price of feeder calves changed from 2000 to 2005 and to examine the perception that discounts narrow or even disappear as calf supplies decrease and selling prices increase. Data from weekly Arkansas livestock auctions were collected from January 1 to December 31 in 2000 and 2005. Data included calf sex, breed type,...

The classical secretary problem studies the problem of selecting online an element (a “secretary”) with maximum value in a randomly ordered sequence. The difficulty lies in the fact that an element must be either selected or discarded upon its arrival, and this decision is irrevocable. Constant-competitive algorithms are known for the classical secretary problems (see, e.g., the survey of Freem...

Web pages for group discounts have become very popular in the past few years. In this paper we concentrate on the group discounts for the service industry in which a quality of the service plays an important role in retaining customers which in return affects business profitability. We present a model of the group discount offer from a merchant’s point view. A merchant decides about the size of...