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The objective of this thesis is to investigate the initial allocation of pollution permits in a dynamic tradeable market. Tradeable pollution permit markets are an increasingly common method of environmental regulation and it is apparent that future schemes may have a number of repeated...
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Diese Dissertation enthält drei Aufsätze zur Theorie der Anreizsetzung bei nicht-verifizierbaren Leistungsmaßen. Untersuchungsgegenstand sind die Auswirkungen individueller Fairnesspräferenzen auf die Ausgestaltung und Eignung verschiedener Anreizmechanismen, welche in realen...
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measurement on wage costs in U- and J-type tournaments. In U-type tournaments prizes are fixed. In J-type tournaments only an …
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individualistic schemes. The empirical literature on Tournaments has been grown. However, many studies use no appropriate data. This … incentives for workers in public sector. The dataset contains information from the Coordenacao de Fiscalizacao (i.e., the … month, which allowed us to support the predictions raised above. In order to examine the tournaments predictions we …
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of a grand prize for performance in a sequence of tournaments affects agents' effort and participation decisions. The … the principal induces a 'hot hand effect.' Specifically, the incentives that players face diverge in the middle of the …
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This paper analyzes optimal pricing for information goods underincomplete information, when both unlimited-usage (fixed-fee) pricingand usage-based pricing are feasible and administering usage-basedpricing may involve transaction costs. It is shown that offeringfixed-fee pricing in addition to a...
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Effective Human Resource Development (HRD) has long been recognised as a critical element in overall organisational strategy, and in turn is important to the ongoing sustainability of organisations. In this paper, the importance of effective HRD strategies and interventions are considered,...
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Although IPv6 has been the next generation Internet protocol for nearly 15 years, new evidences indicate that transitioning from IPv4 to IPv6 is about to become a more pressing issue. This paper attempts to quantify if and how such a transition may unfold. The focus is on ``connectivity...
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value and by providing external incentives to peers to share. With regard to the latter finding, we show that without … external incentives, the level of free-riding in peer-to-peer networks will be higher than the socially optimal level, but that …
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incentives for investments consistent with these reserve requirements. …
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