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Free-Riding in Procurement Design [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Low-powered contracts do not provide proper incentives to reduce cost; still empirical studies show that they are quite pervasive in public and private procurement. This paper argues that low-powered contracts arise due to a free-riding problem when the contractor enjoys economies of scale/scope working for different buyers.
Klenio Barbosa
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“Free rides” in Mathematics

Synthese, 2021
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Free-Riding

2023
Abstract This chapter examines how antitrust decision-makers might rationalize allegations that powerful platforms ‘scrape’ the fruits of suppliers’ labour and ‘Sherlock’ them out of their valuable ideas to develop and/or feed in-house versions of the products in which these pieces of information are embodied.
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FREE RIDING

Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2014
Following the publication ofThe Logic of Collective Actionby Mancur Olson in 1965, the notion of free riding gained wide currency in economics. The idea of enjoying the benefits of collective action without incurring the corresponding costs seemed to shed light on a number of major issues in American society at a time when social ills of various kinds ...
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Institutional Free Riding

2021
Certain institutions give countries comparative advantage in certain areas, such as IPRs and the development of semiconductors. If their trading partners lack these institutions, they benefit from these goods through trade. Trading partners can misappropriate the benefit of these institutions, such as IPRs, by infringing or extorting value. The benefit
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Political Free Riding

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
There are two basic reasons why a citizen may choose to engage in political activity: She may wish to achieve particular results (“extrinsic motivations”) or she may simply enjoy engaging in the political activity itself (“intrinsic motivations”). However, most citizens’ ability to affect political outcomes is extremely limited, and attempts to do so ...
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Free riding and uncertainty

European Economic Review, 1987
This paper examines the effects of uncertainty on pure public good provision and free-riding behavior. Two models are presented. In the first, Nash behavior is assumed and uncertainty is with respect to the contributions of the rest of the community. For the second model, non-Nash behavior is assumed and uncertainty concerns the nonzero response that a
Todd Sandler   +2 more
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Free-Riding and Research Ethics

The American Journal of Bioethics, 2005
In “Rethinking Research Ethics,” Rosamond Rhodes argues that all of us (including vulnerable populations) have a duty to participate in research ethics programs (Rhodes 2005).
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