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Auctioning Monopoly Franchises: Award Criteria and Service Launch Requirements

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  • Michele Moretto

    (University of Padova)

  • Cesare Dosi

    (University of Padova)

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We study the competition to acquire the exclusive right to operate an infrastructure service, by comparing two different specifications for the financial proposals - "lowest price to consumers" vs "highest concession fee", and two alternative contractual arrangements: a contract which imposes the obligation to immediately undertake the investment required to operate the concessioned service and a contract which simply assigns to the winning bidder the right to supply the market at a date of her choosing. By comparing the returns of these alternative award criteria and concessioning conditions, we show that concessioning without imposing rollout time limits may or may not provide a higher expected social value, depending on the bidding rule used to allocate the contract. In turn, the relative advantages of each award criterion are affected by the concessioning conditions.

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  • Michele Moretto & Cesare Dosi, 2009. "Auctioning Monopoly Franchises: Award Criteria and Service Launch Requirements," Working Papers 2009.23, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.
    • Handle: RePEc:fem:femwpa:2009.23
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    1. Dosi, Cesare & Moretto, Michele, 2010. "Licences, "Use or Lose" Provisions and the Time of Investment," Institutions and Markets Papers 59756, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM).

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    Keywords

    Concessions; Auctions; Award criteria; Service Rollout Time limits;
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    JEL classification:

    • L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation
    • D44 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Auctions
    • D92 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Intertemporal Firm Choice, Investment, Capacity, and Financing

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