The current unemployment insurance and employment protection legislation were set up in an environment in which relationships between workers and firms were typically long-lasting and stable. The increasing globalisation of the economy and the rapid technological and organisational changes...

The general public considers Fixed-Route Transit (FRT) to be inconvenientwhile Demand-Responsive Transit (DRT) provides much of the desired flexibility with adoor-to-door type of service. However, FRT is typically more cost efficient than DRT todeploy. Therefore, there is an increased interest...

Estimation of flow volumes in computer networks involves the use of data that are either highly aggregated or fairly noisy. We address several conceptual and practical aspects of the use of such data for flow volume estimation in this work. The results presented are often of general statistical...

Doctor of Philosophy

I characterize the optimal accuracy level r of an unbiased Tullock contest between two players with heterogeneous prize valuations. The designer maximizes the winning probability of the strong player or the winner's expected valuation by choosing a contest with an all-pay auction equilibrium (r...

I characterize the optimal accuracy level r of an unbiased Tullock contest between two players with heterogeneous prize valuations. The designer maximizes the winning probability of the strong player or the winner's expected valuation by choosing a contest with an all-pay auction equilibrium (r...

I characterize the optimal accuracy level r of an unbiased Tullock contest between two players with heterogeneous prize valuations. The designer maximizes the winning probability of the strong player or the winner's expected valuation by choosing a contest with an all-pay auction equilibrium...

Consumer products and services can often be described as mixtures of ingredients. Examples are the mixture of ingredients in a cocktail and the mixture of different components of waiting time (e.g., in-vehicle and out-of-vehicle travel time) in a transportation setting. Choice experiments may...

We show that binary designs for cross-over models obtained from orthogonal arrays are universally optimal under correlated errors.

For the problem of checking linearity in a heteroscedastic nonparametric regression model under a fixed design assumption we study maximin designs which maximize the minimum power of a nonparametric test over a broad class of alternatives from the assumed linear regression model. It is...