Thesis (Master of Business Administration)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2009. / Thesis Advisor(s): Petross, Diana ; San Miguel, Joseph G. "December 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on January 28, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Marine Corps, Body Armor, Family of Ballistic Protection Includes bibliographical references (p. 45-48). Also available in print.

In this thesis we examine three aspects of procurement policy in the context of asymmetric information. In Chapter 1, we identify an incentive for the contracted firm to underinvest in the comprehensiveness of its internal accounting system, a result similar to that due to Averch and Johnson (1962). The policy implications of this distortion are analysed using both a theoretical construct and numerical simulation. In Chapter 2, we identify a class of distortions generated by the practice of paying 'progress payments' to contracted firms in a model in which 'real' and 'symbolic' progress are not inextricably linked, and in which the procurement agency observes only the latter. In Chapter 3 we construct a simple dual-sector model in which a paternalist government uses bailouts to sustain faltering firms. The firm, knowing the motivation of its client, has an incentive to exploit that knowledge. This complicates the procurement problem in a manner explored in Chapter 3.

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Licentiatavhandling Stockholm : Kungl. Tekniska högskolan, 2006.

Thesis--PlanB (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S. in Leadership and Human Resource Development)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2005. / Thesis Advisor(s): Albert C. Pierce, Raymond E. Franck. Includes bibliographical references. Also available online.

Thesis--University of Michigan, 1988.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 137-147).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1965. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Bibliography: l. 161-163.

Thesis (M.S. in Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 1990. / Thesis Advisor(s): Smith, Raymond W. Second Reader: Carrick, Paul M. "June 1990." Description based on title screen as viewed on 19 October 2009. DTIC Identifier(s): component breakout program, military procurement, contract administration, logistics management, parts, decision making, quality, government furnished equipment, management planning and control. Author(s) subject terms: Component breakout; component breakin; government furnished equipment; government furnished material; contractor furnished equipment. Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-213). Also available online.