Implicit Cost Allocation and Bidding for Contracts

DOI10.1287/MNSC.36.9.1133MaRDI QIDQ3489765zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Susan I. Cohen, Martin Loeb

Publication date 1990

Published in Management Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://hdl.handle.net/2142/29890

zbMATH Keywords

indirect costsindependent private-values bidding modeloptimal cost allocation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Auctions, bargaining, bidding and selling, and other market models (91B26) Production theory, theory of the firm (91B38)

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