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Non-monotone incentive structures, which - according to theory - are able to induce optimal behavior, are often regarded as empirically less relevant for labor relationships. We compare the performance of a theoretically optimal non-monotone contract with a monotone one under controlled...
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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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responses of their peers - when combined with financial incentives - produced more accurate performance. Other treatments …
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, and (b) providing managerial incentives. We show that two particular organizational forms, the M-form (multidivisional …, under certain empirical assumptions, the M-form is likely to be strictly preferable once incentives are taken into account …
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achieve best management. The results indicate that financial incentives are likely to be requiredto encourage smaller graziers … to invest in changing their management practices, while largergraziers may only require incentives to balance the risk …
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The thesis consists of three main chapters on optimal incentives for a multi-level allocation process of HIV … allocate prevention funds optimally. Thus, incentives could be given to decision-makers to encourage optimal allocation ….Chapter 4 investigates the impact of incentives by developing a model in which an upper-level decision-maker (UD) allocates …
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itself is not sufficient to address two important factors contributing to unsustainable fisheries - inappropriate incentives …
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Development economists often analyse the performance of particular sectors of the economy, yet they have largely ignored that of one of the most important sectors, namely, the public sector, the performance of which is demonstrably poor. They are also continually giving recommendations to the...
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