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How Local Governments Structure Contracts with Private Firms: Economic Theory and Evidence on Solid Waste and Recycling Contracts

Walls, Margaret - 2003

Solid waste management services are contracted out to private firms in many U.S. communities. Household waste collection, transport, and disposal are relatively straightforward services to define within the terms of a contract. The addition of recycling, however, significantly complicates...

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Should we combine incentive payments and tendering for efficiently purchasing conservation services from landholders?

Schilizzi, Steven; Breustedt, Gunnar; Latacz-Lohmann, Uwe - 2010

Policy makers aiming to get private landholders to provide non-marketed environmental services need to provide efficient economic incentives. Two ideas have been explored to achieve this: linking contract payments to environmental outcomes and putting the contracts up for tender. This paper...

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AUCTIONING OUTCOME-BASED CONSERVATION CONTRACTS

Latacz-Lohmann, Uwe; Schilizzi, Steven; Breustedt, Gunnar - 2011

This paper explores two ideas to enhance the performance of agri-environmental contracting schemes: linking contract payments to environmental outcomes and putting the contracts up for tender. This paper investigates whether there are any gains to be had by combining the benefits of both...

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Social Preferences and Public Economics: Mechanism design when social preferences depend on incentives

Bowles, Samuel; Hwang, Sung-Ha - 2008

Social preferences such as altruism, reciprocity, intrinsic motivation and a desire to uphold ethical norms are essential to good government, often facilitating socially desirable allocations that would be unattainable by incentives that appeal solely to self-interest. But experimental and other...

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Social Preferences and Public Economics: Mechanism design when social preferences depend on incentives

Bowles, Samuel; Hwang, Sung-Ha - 2008

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Three Essays on Worker Turnover and Incentive Contracts in Labour Market Search Equilibrium

Zaharieva, Anna - 2010

This dissertation thesis consists of three independent research papers and is devoted to the topic of worker turnover and incentive contracts in a labour market characterized by search frictions and matching. There exists a large body of literature dating back to the seminal studies by Diamond,...

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Incentive Contracts for Politicians

Liessem, Verena - 2003

The thesis studies the potential of incentive contracts for politicians using game-theoretic methods. Supplementing the election mechanism with these contracts is a new idea to make politicians more accountable. Two types of incentive contracts are considered: a) monetary incentive contracts...

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Essays on Efficiency in Bargaining

Tiedemann, Jens A.G. - 2010

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Why Do Businesses Use (or Not Use) Arbitration Clauses?

Drahozal, Christopher R.; Ware, Stephen J. - 2010

Some recent scholarship contends that arbitration is failing in its attempts to compete with litigation. When … arbitration does succeed in attracting customers, such as businesses including arbitration clauses in their consumer contracts … arbitration clauses in a sample of material contracts (such as loan commitments and merger agreements) filed with the SEC, and …

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Privacy Patterns for Online Interactions

Cranor, Lorrie Faith; Romanowsky, Sasha; Hong, Jason; … - 2006

A proper security architecture is an essential part of implementing robust and reliable networked applications. Security patterns have shown how reoccurring problems can be best solved with proven solutions. However, while they are critical for ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and...

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