Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/75879 
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Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 515
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper deals with a Niskanen type of public-procurement agency. It is shown that the procurement game should be separated into an investment game and a project game, the first game to be played before nature determines the actual real-izations of benefit and costs of the project, the second game to be played afterward. In the first game the relationship-specific investments of agency and seller are determined, in the second game the decision on the production of the project is taken. In contrast to many other incomplete-contract papers, in our Niskanen setting it is meaningless to write one and only one contract which refers to both investment and production. Welfare-optimal procurement of the project can be attained under relatively weak assumptions; welfare-optimal investments of the seller (and only of the seller) may result under special circumstances; welfare-optimal investments of both agency and seller cannot be reached.
Subjects: 
Bureaucracy
Procurement
incomplete contracts
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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