Robert P Trost
Biographic Data
| ID | 6369606 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert P Trost |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert P |
| FAMILY NAME | Trost |
| SIGNATURE | TROST R P |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Reducing Government Spending with Privatization Competitions
In a privatization competition, private contractors bid against an in-house team to perform a governmental function that is currently performed by the in-house team. The Department of Defense initiated 3,500 privatization competitions from 1978 to 1994, generating estimated annual savings of $1.46 billion. We estimate a reduced-form model of the savings from these competitions that takes into account the premature cancellation of some competition…
Bidding behavior in the department of defense's commercial activities competitions
From 1978 to 1994, the Department of Defense conducted more than 2,000 competitions in which private contractors and the government's in-house team bid to provide a service performed in-house before the competition. A three-equation model is constructed, which is used to estimate the in-house bid, the minimum contractor bid, and the in-house team's baseline cost. The model accounts for the fact that the in-house bid is constrained not to exceed i…
Bidding behavior in the department of defense's commercial activities competitions
Estimation of Short-Run and Long-Run Elasticities of Energy Demand From Panel Data Using Shrinkage Estimators
This article discusses the problem of obtaining short-run and long-run elasticities of energy demand for each of 49 states in the United States using data for 21 years. Estimation using the time series data by each state gave several wrong signs for the coefficients. Estimation using pooled data was not valid because the hypothesis of homogeneity of the coefficients was rejected. Shrinkage estimators gave more reasonable results. The article pres…
Technical Training and Earnings
Market Structure and Rivalry
It is argued that the estimation techniques used by previous researchers to study rivalry in financial markets are inappropriate. The assumptions of both ordinary least-squares and Tobi analysis are violated when these techniques are used to analyze mobility and turnover data. To overcome the difficulties in the previous studies, we suggest a non-linear model (which is closely related to the Poisson model). This model is designed for describing f…
The Response of State Government Receipts to Economic Fluctuations and the Allocation of Counter-Cyclical Revenue Sharing Grants
Robert C. Vogel, Robert P. Trost, The Response of State Government Receipts to Economic Fluctuations and the Allocation of Counter-Cyclical Revenue Sharing Grants, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 61, No. 3 (Aug., 1979), pp. 389-400
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The Response of State Government Receipts to Economic Fluctuations and the Allocation of Counter-Cyclical Revenue Sharing Grants
Robert C. Vogel, Robert P. Trost, The Response of State Government Receipts to Economic Fluctuations and the Allocation of Counter-Cyclical Revenue Sharing Grants, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 61, No. 3 (Aug., 1979), pp. 389-400
Technical Training and Earnings
Market Structure and Rivalry
It is argued that the estimation techniques used by previous researchers to study rivalry in financial markets are inappropriate. The assumptions of both ordinary least-squares and Tobi analysis are violated when these techniques are used to analyze mobility and turnover data. To overcome the difficulties in the previous studies, we suggest a non-linear model (which is closely related to the Poisson model). This model is designed for describing f…
Estimation of Short-Run and Long-Run Elasticities of Energy Demand From Panel Data Using Shrinkage Estimators
This article discusses the problem of obtaining short-run and long-run elasticities of energy demand for each of 49 states in the United States using data for 21 years. Estimation using the time series data by each state gave several wrong signs for the coefficients. Estimation using pooled data was not valid because the hypothesis of homogeneity of the coefficients was rejected. Shrinkage estimators gave more reasonable results. The article pres…
Reducing Government Spending with Privatization Competitions
In a privatization competition, private contractors bid against an in-house team to perform a governmental function that is currently performed by the in-house team. The Department of Defense initiated 3,500 privatization competitions from 1978 to 1994, generating estimated annual savings of $1.46 billion. We estimate a reduced-form model of the savings from these competitions that takes into account the premature cancellation of some competition…
Bidding behavior in the department of defense's commercial activities competitions
From 1978 to 1994, the Department of Defense conducted more than 2,000 competitions in which private contractors and the government's in-house team bid to provide a service performed in-house before the competition. A three-equation model is constructed, which is used to estimate the in-house bid, the minimum contractor bid, and the in-house team's baseline cost. The model accounts for the fact that the in-house bid is constrained not to exceed i…
Bidding behavior in the department of defense's commercial activities competitions
Economics (6 works) · Business (4 works) · Econometrics (4 works) · Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets (3 works) · Microeconomics (3 works) · Auction Theory and Applications (2 works) · Bidding (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Finance (2 works) · Finance (2 works)