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Choice in the presence of experts: The role of general practitioners in patients' hospital choice

Beckert, Walter; Collyer, Kate - 2016

This paper considers the micro-econometric analysis of patients' hospital choice for elective medical procedures when their choice set is pre-selected by a general practitioner (GP). It proposes a two-stage choice model that encompasses both, patient and GP level optimization, and it discusses...

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Analysis of the Logistics Service Provider/principal relationship: In the light of innovation as a LSP strategy

Bouchette, Hasna; Achoui, Mostafa; Saki, Zohra; Kabbaj, … - 2018

, therefore, at the heart of the PSL strategies. The relationship that the LSP has with its principal is central to the innovation … its principal. The work aims at presenting not only testable hypotheses on a conceptual analysis, but also theories … derived from the relation LSP/Principal. …

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Verhaltensmodelle fur Softwareagenten im Public Goods Game

Müller, Marcus; Stern, Guillaume; Jacob, Ansger; Kirn, … - 2011

Gegenstand der vorliegenden Arbeit ist das Verhaltensmodell von Softwareagenten in einem Public Goods Game. Agenten im Sinne der Arbeit besitzen jeweils eigene, individuelle Ziele und müssen sich im Hinblick auf ein übergeordnetes Gesamtziel im Multiagentensystem koordinieren. Dabei hängen...

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Proceedings of the 12th European Agent Systems Summer School Student Session

Balke, Tina (contributor); Yaich, Reda (contributor) - 2010

This volume contains the papers presented at the Student Session of the 12th European Agent Systems Summer School … fellow students as well as internationally leading experts in the agent field,both from the theoretical and the practical … sector. Table of Contents: Andreea Urzica, Distributed Reputation Extraction in Multi-Agent Systems ... 5; Andrea Santi, From …

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Proceedings of the 11th European Agent Systems Summer School Student Session

Balke, Tina (contributor); Villata, Serena (contributor); … - 2009

This volume contains the papers presented at the Student Session of the 11th European Agent Systems Summer School … well as internationally leading experts in the agent field, both from the theoretical and the practical sector. Table of …, Marco Luetzenberger and Nils Masuch, Towards Toolipse 2: Tool Support for the JIAC V Agent Framework . . . 30; Joseph El …

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Passive investment strategies and financial bubbles

Fischer, Thomas - 2012

In this paper, a model of bounded rational investors investing their portfolio in a passive investment vehicle (e.g., an Exchange Traded Fund replicating a broad index) or an actively managed fund is presented. The model proposes that the quick reswitching of these short-term oriented investors...

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News reaction in financial markets within a behavioral finance model with heterogeneous agents

Fischer, Thomas - 2011

This paper presents a Heterogeneous Agent Model of a financial market with chartist and fundamentalist traders that …

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Inherent agency conflict built into the auditor remuneration model

Morawska, Sylwia; Staszkiewicz, Piotr - In: Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe 19 (2016) 4, pp. 141-159

This paper provides a model for audit market interventions. The study asks whether interventions in the audit market result in excessive premiums at the cost of quality and independence. The model was tested based on a historical data sample of 1,927 companies' fiscal year financial statements,...

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Modeling the formation of R&D alliances: An agentbased model with empirical validation

Tomasello, Mario Vincenzo; Burkholz, Rebekka; … - 2017

The authors develop an agent-based model to reproduce the size distribution of R&D alliances of firms. Agents are … results from the fitness of the agents involved. Fitness is obtained from an empirical distribution of agent's activities. The … distribution with the theoretical one, using confidence bands, to find a very good agreement. As an asset of our agent-based model …

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Some issues in creating and diffusing scientific information

Platje, Joost; Kazimierowicz, Robert; Krzekotowski, Jacek - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 13 (2013) 3, pp. 295-310

Scientific information is elementary for human development processes. The creation and control of information may be an important determinant of development, and besides creating a competitive advantage, also result in increasing disparities in economic and social development. Challenges in the...

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