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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"Contract Theory"”.
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Contract Theory Framework for Wireless Networking
… and non-technology related network externality. Contract theory, the 2014 Nobel Prize of economic science, has been widely used in industries, from banking to telecommunications. Particularly, contract theory is an efficient tool in dealing with asymmetric information between employer/seller(s) …
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Essays on macroeconomics and contract theory
This thesis studies how contracting frictions affect the outcomes that the public sector or individual agents can achieve. The focus is on situations where the government or the agent lacks commitment on its future actions. Chapter 1, joint work with Juan Xandri, proposes a method to deal with …
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Essays on contract theory and behavioral economics
This thesis is a collection of essays on contract theory and behavioral economics. Chapter 1 proposes a model of choice under risk based on imperfect memory and self-deception. The model assumes that people have preferences over their own attributes and can, to some extent, manipulate their …
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Essays on contract theory and organizational economics
… a non-parametric methodology for identifying contract optimality in the presence of moral hazard. Following the first order approach, a standard method of computing optimal contracts, the paper first proves two theoretical properties of the solutions to the moral hazard problem. First, we show …
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Significance of Social Contract Theory for International Organization
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T17:26:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 5902028.pdf: 9919326 bytes, checksum: 42f59765748b67406c3197888bab0807 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1959
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Working relationships in family business: a psychological contract theory perspective
… success or failure. Drawing upon psychological contract theory, this study investigates the formation and content dimensions of psychological contracts among family and non-family employees in family businesses. By comparing and contrasting these perspectives, this study uncovers the underlying …
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GOVERNING SHARING PLATFORMS COOPERATIVELY: ESSAYS IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORY AND THE CAPABILITY APPROACH
Il presente elaborato intende contribuire, sotto forma di una collezione di quattro articoli tematici, ad una delle principali questioni che caratterizzano l’attuale discorso sulla sostenibilità: come porre rimedio agli aspetti più negativi del cosiddetto “capitalismo di piattaforma” al fine di …
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Three Economic Extensions of John Rawls's Social Contract Theory: European Fiscal Union, Tax Compliance and Climate Change
In my thesis I apply the ethical model developed by John Rawls (1999) to three systems which have an economic dimension: European Union, tax compliance and environmental sustainability. With this task my purpose is to answer to the following overarching research question: is an impartial and …
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Social contract theory, African American slave narratives, and the reconstruction of early modern conceptions of political freedom
… conceptual foundation and structure, to Social Contract theory. My dissertation examines African American slave narratives and social contract theory concurrently providing a new opportunity to explore the creation of the political self within the liberal tradition, specifically via literacy and …
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Operationalalizing social contract: application of relational contract theory to exploration of constraints on implementation of an employee assistance program
… implementation by exploring the nature of contractual relations in the construction industry. The program of interest was the Laborers’ Membership Assistance Program. Second, it sought to operationalize behavioral norms identified by Macneil in his work on relational contract. The …
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The victim role: an exploration into descriptions and evaluations of victims
… However, this hypothesis is untested. Social contract theory posits that people are suspicious of social exchanges; claims to the victim role activate a social contract that requires others to engage in a social exchange. Thus, people may seek to disqualify victimization claims, but may …
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On Hypothetical Contracts
… develops a critique of Rawlsian social contract theory by arguing that the normative component of democratic practices must be grounded in nonpolitical reasons. With John Rawls’s rights-based approach, social contract theory has strongly resurfaced by focusing on consent as the basic …
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Incentive Compatibility and Efficiency in the Contractual Insurer-Provider Relationship - Economic Theory and Practical Implications: The Case of North Carolina
… is concerned with the efficient organization of contractual relationships between health insurers and providers. An introduction to relevant aspects of contract theory is followed by their adaptation to the characteristics of the health care system. The focus lies on an ex ante alignment of …
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The Line in the Sand: Understanding Customer Sexual Harassment Through a Psychological Contract Framework
… 2008). The current study applies psychological contract theory toward understanding how CSH leads to adverse outcomes, which affect individuals and organizations. A sample of 420 working women including both students and full-time non-student workers from various organizations were recruited to …
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A Hybrid Theory of Global Justice
… level? In my dissertation, I develop an original theory of global justice that can answer these questions and I show how my theory applies to current problems. I start by articulating why we need a theory of international justice and introducing the theories that have already been proposed. I …
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Regulating lobbying’s influence on trade policy in South Africa to achieve openness, transparency and integrity.
… biblical covenants have given way to social contracts between governments and citizens in terms of social contract theory which posits that citizens relinquish power to governments in exchange for governance aligned with their interests; while lobbying has surged into a multi-billion dollar …
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Understanding the Volunteer Youth Coaching Environment: A Psychological Contract Perspective
… coaching environment using psychological contract theory. Psychological contract posits that volunteers and their organization have implicit and explicit expectations of each other, and the breach and fulfillment of these expectations impact volunteers’ attitude and intended behaviour. …
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The Event of Revolution
… earlier theories of revolution, such as social contract theory and Marxism, both of which present certain parts of the state as unchangeable. Social contract theorists necessitate that certain elements like the sovereign and the nature of the contract be preserved, while Marxism maintains that …
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An Operational Value Stream Analysis for Developmental Excellence
… a multidisciplinary approach that integrates contract theory, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and machine learning, this research explores the impacts of engineering requirements, financial alignment among stakeholders, and improved efficiencies in predictive modeling techniques for two …
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Public hospital corporatization and innovation in Lebanon and Chile : agency and decision rights approaches
… performance. Recent developments in agency and contract theory shed some new light on old questions about public sector performance, of which I address three in this dissertation. The first question has to do with the manner in which institutional design in general, and decision rights …
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