Robust Screens for Noncompetitive Bidding in Procurement Auctions
Sylvain Chassang,
Kei Kawai,
Jun Nakabayashi and
Juan Ortner
Econometrica, 2022, vol. 90, issue 1, 315-346
Abstract:
We document a novel bidding pattern observed in procurement auctions from Japan: winning bids tend to be isolated, and there is a missing mass of close losing bids. This pattern is suspicious in the following sense: its extreme forms are inconsistent with competitive behavior under arbitrary information structures. Building on this observation, we develop systematic tests of competitive behavior in procurement auctions that allow for general information structures as well as nonstationary unobserved heterogeneity. We provide an empirical exploration of our tests, and show they can help identify other suspicious patterns in the data.
Date: 2022
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