An official for the administrators refused to speak directly about Ecclestone's bid, saying: "We do not comment on any specific bidders.
While the company was not specific, the bidders are said to include the NBC unit of General Electric Liberty Media Metro-Goldwyn-Mayerer; Viacom; a group led by the entrepreneur Marvin Davis; and another led by Edgar Bronfman Jr., who arranged the sale of Seagram and the Universal properties to Vivendi in 2000.
Clark did not wish to be specific about any bidders but stressed that there was worldwide interest.
This dominance result is not prone to the specific bid announcement policy, the bidder's knowledge regarding the number of bidders, the impact of traffic congestion along the bidding process, the number of items sold through the auction, and the existence of a reserve price.
By matching to a firm-level database and combining it with data on travel distances from the firm׳s address to the location of the project, several bidder-specific variables are added.
Not setting a target for the latest funding round, stresses McGeough, is to avoid setting specific targets that might discourage bidders from focusing on value for money.
We first assume that each local bidder values only a specific item, e.g. the license for the region where it has monopoly power, and that global bidders' valuation functions are convex.
This research analyses the differences relating to how two different National Healthcare Systems (NHS), the Italian and the British, are managing their Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP) in terms of supplier's and bidders' sustainable evaluation through specific practices and criteria.
As a transaction-specific control variable, RELATIVE SIZE between bidder and target (Moeller et al. 2004; Seth 1990) is defined as the index of bidder sales to target sales and deal value to market capitalization as a percentage.
Then there are the Super Pacs such as Steyer's NextGen Climate – the operations set up to promote specific issues, come hell or the highest bidder.
