Authors: Anja Schöttner
Publish Date: 2007/01/31
Volume: 35, Issue: 1, Pages: 57-71
Abstract
This paper analyzes a procurement setting with identical firms and stochastic innovations In contrast to the previous literature I show that a procurer who cannot charge entry fees may prefer a fixedprize tournament to a firstprice auction The reason is that holding an auction may leave higher rents to firms when the innovation technology is subject to large random factors
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