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An Incentive Mechanism for Decentralized Water Metering Decisions
Chambouleyron, Andrés - In: Water Resources Management 17 (2003) 2, pp. 89-111
concessions in Argentina are studied: Buenos Aires and Córdoba. Conclusions and policy recommendations are drawn from the theory …
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: Performance, pay and promotion: implementing a Weberian bureaucracy in nineteenth century Baden
Selgert, Felix - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 8 (2014) 1, pp. 79-113
This paper is based on the difference between the formal introduction of a Weberian bureaucracy and its actual implementation through state officials. This difference between the formal institutional framework and its actual implementation could lead to failed reforms. On the other side, there...
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When Acquisition Spoils Retention: Direct Selling vs. Delegation Under CRM
Dong, Yan; Yao, Yuliang; Cui, Tony Haitao - In: Management Science 57 (2011) 7, pp. 1288-1299
The widespread implementation of customer relationship management technologies in business has allowed companies to increasingly focus on both acquiring and retaining customers. The challenge of designing incentive mechanisms that simultaneously focus on customer acquisition and customer...
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Involving local farmers in rehabilitation of degraded tropical forests: some lessons from Ghana
Blay, Dominic; Appiah, Mark; Damnyag, Lawrence; Dwomoh, … - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 10 (2008) 4, pp. 503-518
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A system dynamics approach for investigating impacts of incentive mechanisms on wind power investment
Alishahi, E.; Moghaddam, M. Parsa; Sheikh-El-Eslami, M.K. - In: Renewable Energy 37 (2012) 1, pp. 310-317
Large integration of intermittent wind generation in power system has necessitated the inclusion of more innovative and sophisticated approaches in power system investment planning. The intermittent nature and uncertainties of wind power generation will cause the investors encounter risk in...
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Patent Systems for Encouraging Innovation: Lessons from Economic Analysis
Encaoua, David; Guellec, Dominique; Martínez, Catalina - HAL - 2006
Economic theory views patents as policy instruments aimed at fostering innovation and diffusion. Three major …. Beyond these three implications, economic theory also pleads for a mechanism design approach: an optimal patent system could …
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Introduction to the Special Issue on Incentives and Coordination in Operations Management
Chen, Fangruo; Zenios, Stefanos A. - In: Management Science 51 (2005) 1, pp. 1-1
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The Incentive Role of Creating "Cities" in China
Li, Lixing - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
"cities". In China, awarding city status to existing counties is the dominant way of creating new urban administrative units …, during which the local government gets many benefits. Using a large panel data set covering all counties in China during 1993 … about China’s politics of governance: where does power lie in China? …
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On coalitional stability of anonymous interim mechanisms
Demange, Gabrielle; Guesnerie, Roger - In: Economic Theory 18 (2001) 2, pp. 367-389
In a situation where agents have private information, we investigate the stability of mechanisms with respect to coalitional deviations. In the cooperative tradition, we first extend the notion of Core, taking into account the information a coalition may have when it forms and the conjectures of...
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Optimal Water Metering and Pricing
Chambouleyron, Andrés - In: Water Resources Management 18 (2004) 4, pp. 305-319
Marginal cost pricing of running water and sewerage services haslong been the default recommendation of economists and natural resource specialists to firms and local governments. However, optimal water rate calculation considering the optimal number ofmeters has not been thoroughly treated in...
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