Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Contract design"”.
-
Essays on Contract Design in Marketing
This thesis examines how firms design their contracts in different marketing contexts. The first essay theoretically investigates the impact of external advances in consumption tracking technologies on the design of pricing contracts. Using the context of mobile banking applications that help …
-
Essays in experimental economics on contract design
… contains three related essays which examine contracting environments with moral hazard. I use laboratory experiments to study how across treatment variations affect contractual outcomes including the types of contracts that principals design, the overall efficiency of the contractual …
-
Contract design of a fleet replenishment ship
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, 1955
-
Contract Design for Collaborative Response to Service Disruptions
… In particular it is aimed at understanding how contracting decisions between a vendor and one or multiple clients affect the firms' subsequent decisions to ensure disruption response and recovery are managed as efficiently as possible. This dissertation consists of three studies that were …
-
Optimal Contract Design for Co-development of Companion Diagnostics
… test for the drug. We describe an optimal contract as one that maximizes the pharmaceutical firm's expected profits while offering enough incentives for the diagnostics firm to accept the contract and then work at an effort level that is preferred by the pharmaceutical firm. We formulate …
-
Towards a unified theory of procurement contract design : production flexibility, spot market trading, and contract structure
… solution to the pricing problem of option contracts for a supplier of an industrial good in the presence of spot trading. Specifically, our approach fully and jointly endogenizes the determination of three major characteristics in contract design, namely (i) Sales contracts versus options …
-
Mechanism Design Theory for Service Contracts
This paper presents a novel approach for designing and optimizing maintenance service contracts through the application of mechanism design theory. When offering a contract to its customer, the maintenance service provider seeks to specify contract terms - such as price, service features and …
-
Essays in Consumer Finance
… dissertation explores issues regarding the design of consumer financial contracts and their implications for market structure and economic efficiency. These questions are important because, as the recent mortgage crisis suggests, the relationship between household financial decision making, …
-
Food supply chain management and contracting: improving conditions for small-scale paprika farmers in central Malawi
… buyers, processors and customers through contracts represents an increasingly important marketing channel in modern food supply chains due to its potential to decrease costs and increase profits for the participants in the chain. However, vulnerable small-scale farmers in developing …
-
The Effect of Self-Disclosing Misconduct on Supplier-Customer Contracting: Does It Pay to Be Transparent?
<p>Using data on contracts with government customers, I show that corporate suppliers' self-disclosure of misconduct to customers affects their future contracting prospects with those customers. Employing a generalized difference-in-differences design, I exploit a disclosure requirement mandating …
-
Is contracting out an efficient means of delivering health support services? : a case study of a public hospital in Uganda
… related services. Though such reforms may be designed, funded and implemented it does not imply that the conditions necessary for them to yield the intended results do exist. One such reform is contracting out. The only national referral hospital Uganda has a long history of contracting out …
-
Contract designs in the German piggyback transport industry : a transaction cost economics analysis
… the empirical research has not yet examined the contracts co-ordinating German piggyback transport chains in this changed environment. This analysis seeks to explain the four types of contracts most commonly used in German piggyback transport by relating them to the theory of transaction cost …
-
Modelling the Demand for Long-term Care to Optimise Local Level Planning
… short to medium term that can be used to inform contract design based on local area needs – such an approach we argue is more suited to problems in which historic activity is incomplete or limited. Our results show that commitment models can be of great use to local health care planners with …
-
Incentive schemes in the financial industry. An experimental approach
… literature. In Chapter 2 we manipulate the contract design by allowing investors under endowment legitimacy (or not) to decide the incentive scheme while managers have no bargaining power. In Chapter 3 instead, we investigate to what extent a market setting characterized by competition …
-
The micro-foundations of alignment among sponsors and contractors on large engineering projects
Large engineering projects design, engineer and construct much of the world's energy, transportation and defense infrastructure. These large scale engineering endeavors are highly visible, have long lasting impacts and are of major economic significance. Yet despite their importance they frequently …
-
Betriebswirtschaftliche Ansätze zur Reduktion negativer Auswirkungen von Anreizsystemen auf Consensus-Mechanismen im Interbankenmarkt unter Berücksichtigung der Bereiche Markt, Effizienz, Regulatorik und Strategie
… the process, potential changes of the mechanism, contract design, or the implementation of a centralized approach by a supranational organization. It considers price-relevant regulatory requirements based on international accounting rules or from Pruden Valuation. Additionally, it shows areas …
-
Essays in Decision Theory
… competitive markets with uncertainty and optimal contract design. The third Chapter discusses how a complexity averse agent measures the complexity cost of an act after she receives new information. I propose an updating rule for the complexity cost function called Minimal Complexity Updating. The …
-
The anatomy of opportunism: the interplay between formal and relational approach to contracts in public private partnerships.
… what motivates opportunistic behaviour among contracting parties, practitioners are better placed to put in place measures that constraints it instead of merely understanding it. Public Private Partnership frameworks are characterised by contracts which bides parties for a prolonged duration …
-
Uncertainty in interactive decision-making: learning, incentives, and robustness
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
-
Three Essays on Incentive Problems of Parties with Potential Conflict of Interest
… capability, and thus rely on competitive contract manufacturers (CCMs) on the supply side. This increasing demand puts CCMs in a capacity allocation dilemma between their own product and the OBM’s product. I derive the conditions that incentivize the two potential competitors to cooperate …
Page 1 of 2