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Detection of bid ri...
Detection of bid rigging in procurement auctions / Robert H. Porter, J. Douglas Zona.
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Porter, Robert H. (författare)
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Zona, J. Douglas (författare)
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research, 1992
- Engelska 38 s.
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Serie: Working paper series / National Bureau of Economic Research, 99-0429337-6 ; 4013
Abstract
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- This paper examines bidding in auctions for state highway construction contracts on Long Island in the early 1980s, in order to determine whether bid rigging occurred. Detection of collusion is possible because of limited participation in the collusive scheme. The paper looks at differences in behavior between ring members and non-members. In these auctions, collusio did not take the form of a bid rotation scheme, in which only one ring member submits a bid. Instead, several ring members bid on most jobs. The apparent role of ring meetings prior to the auction was to designate a serious bidder, and its bid, and the other firms then frequently submitted phony higher bids. The bidding data indicate that the bids of non-cartel firms, as well as their rank distribution, were related to cost measures, such as how much backlog a firm was carrying. In contrast, the rank distribution of higher cartel bids was unrelated to similar cost measures, and differed from the distribution of the low cartel bid.
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- Design (sao)
- Price fixing -- United States -- Econometric models (LCSH)
- Government purchasing -- United States (LCSH)
- Roads -- United States -- Design and construction (LCSH)
- Design (LCSH)
Publikations- och innehållstyp
- 338.523 (DDC)
- Qaaca (kssb/8 (machine generated))