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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Time is Money: Optimal Investment Delay in Procurement (and Concession) Contracts
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| Autores: |
D'Alpaos, Chiara
Moretto, Michele
Valbonesi, Paola
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| Data: |
2008-04-28
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| Ano: |
2006
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| Palavras-chave: |
Procurement/concession contracts
Premium/penalty fee
Investment timing flexibility
Public Economics
L33
H57
D81
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| Resumo: |
Procurement (and concession) contracts are agreements granting the right to construct public works, operate and provide a service/good. The main advantage of a procurement contract is that it passes full responsibility for investment and operations to the private sector and consequently provides incentives for efficiency. Although most contracts include penalty/premium clauses to avoid construction risks (i.e. delays), evidence from ongoing procurement contracts shows that there are many delays in making investments. Actually these clauses introduce the flexibility to decide when it is optimal to invest and consequently increase the contract’s value for the contractor. Therefore if the contracting authority underestimates penalty/premium fees, these may be totally ineffective in avoiding construction risks. In this paper we specifically investigate the effects that penalty/premium clauses have on both contract value and reduction of delay. We also focus on the design of optimal penalty/premium rules.
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| Tipo: |
Conference Paper or Presentation
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
29808
http://purl.umn.edu/6642
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| Relação: |
University of Minnesota>Center for International Food and Agricultural Policy>Conference Papers
Proceedings of the 10th Joint Conference on Agriculture, Food, and the Environment, August 27-30, 2006, Duluth, Minnesota
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| Formato: |
20
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