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Excerpt from The Economist -- "A paper by Kei Kawai of New York University’s Stern School of Business and Jun Nakabayashi of Tohoku University examines Japanese public building projects. They collected data on over 40,000 tenders from 2003-06 worth $42 billion (around 3% of national tax revenue). The Japanese government uses a first-price sealed-bid auction: builders write down their best price, and the lowest bid wins the work. If none beats a reserve price that is known only to the auctioneer, the procedure is repeated until a bid beats the reserve."

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