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We design and implement an iterative, program-proposing deferred acceptance mechanism with ties (IDAT) and apply it to childcare assignment in two German cities. The mechanism can accommodate complementarities in providers' preferences, is fast to terminate even in larger cities, is difficult to...
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setting, humans cannot verify the algorithm's quality. We, therefore, argue that algorithms exhibit traits of a credence good … intervention, we explain the way the algorithm functions. We find that while explanation helps participants recognize bias in the … algorithm, it remarkably decreases human decision-making performance. In the second treatment, we reveal the task's correct …
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In industries like health care, public transport or call centers a shift-based system ensures permanent availability of employees for covering needed services. The resource allocation problem - assigning employees to shifts - is known as personnel scheduling in literature and often aims at...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has led to enormous data movements that strongly affect parameters and forecasts from standard VARs. To address these issues, we propose VAR models with outlier-augmented stochastic volatility (SV) that combine transitory and persistent changes in volatility. The resulting...
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