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Evaluation of Models and Techniques for Estimating the Effects of Competition
January 1, 1986
An evaluation of past efforts to estimate the savings due to the use of competition in weapon system production programs is presented. The evaluation was based on the research literature available from the historical efforts. The evaluation of the literature discusses in detail the analytical models and techniques used in the analyses of price formation in sole-source and competitive production programs, the data bases used and reported for the programs studied, and the results and conclusions reported in the literature. The memorandum concludes that the models and techniques used to assess the price effects of competition are immature and inadequate to sort out the effects of comptetition sought by the analyses; that the data bases used in the literature are incomplete, of uneven quality, and may be seriously biased; and that the resulting estimates of savings due to the use of competition are of uneven validity.
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Price Analysis and the Effects of Competition
October 1, 1985
This paper reports on the literature survey of a study of competition in defense procurement. The papers reviewed are retrospective evaluations of the effects of competition on the costs of weapons programs already completed. The commonly accepted model used to evaluate competition is presented. Then, the data and results from the literature are discussed. Finally, the paper gives some tentative conclusions on the adequacy of the model as both a retrospective and prospective tool for analyzing the effects of competition.
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PROFIT-MAKING VS. OPTIMAL BEHAVIOR IN A SPATIAL SETTING: SUMMARY AND EXTENSIONS
March 1, 1984
This paper discusses several aspects of the relationships among monopoly, competitive, and welfare-maximizing behavior.
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EUROPEAN PERCEPTIONS AND EAST-WEST COMPETITION
August 1, 1977

This paper was written for a panel dealing with the systematic assessment of Soviet-American competition. It focuses upon one psychological dimension of this competition, perceptions of Western European leaders concerning the state of East-West tension in Europe. Its goals are to show, in a systematic manner, the course taken by these perceptions in France, the United Kingdom, and the Federal Republic of Germany, and to relate these perceptions to other elements in the system of East-West competition that has existed since WW II.

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