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Renegotiation with Ex-Post Competition in Procurement - Ruitian Lang

Tracks
Room CBE LT3
Friday, June 30, 2023
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Overview

FIRMS AND CONTRACTING II Convenor: Rohan Pitchford


Speaker

Dr Ruitian Lang
Lecturer
The Australian National University

Renegotiation with Ex-Post Competition in Procurement

Abstract

After initially winning the right to serve the market or the government, firms often cannot foresee future technological changes or market conditions, so the initial contracts between the firms and the government are often incomplete. Renegotiation is often required to improve ex-post efficiency. When the government engages multiple firms, they are still in competition at the renegotiation stage, which yields non-trivial predictions on their interim behavior. We show that ex-post efficiency is achieve by a renegotiation protocol that generalizes the Shapley value, but the ex-post outcome distorts the firms' interim incentive to invest (after signing the initial incomplete contracts and before renegotiation) in surprising ways.

Biography

Ruitian received his PhD from MIT in 2014 and joined the Research School of Economics of ANU in 2016.
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