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Showing 1 to 20 of 1447 for “"Incentive"”.
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Incentive Contracts for Politicians
The thesis studies the potential of incentive contracts for politicians using game-theoretic methods. Supplementing the election mechanism with these contracts is a new idea to make politicians more accountable. Two types of incentive contracts are considered: a) monetary incentive contracts which …
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Incentive compensation : bonusing and motivation
… are two compensation ideals, merit-based versus incentive-based. Merit based compensation correlates compensation to one's job performance, whereas incentive based on set goals and correlates bonus rewards before the time frame used to evaluate the performance. An effective incentive program …
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Essays on optimization and incentive contracts
(cont.) In the second part of the thesis, we focus on the design and analysis of simple, possibly non-coordinating contracts in a single-supplier, multi-retailer supply chain where retailers make both pricing and inventory decisions. Specifically, we introduce a buy-back menu contract to improve …
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An incentive plan for middle management.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Thesis. 1967. M.S.
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Successive Incentive Contrast: Implications Of Deconfounded Procedures
… reports a series of investigations into the incentive contract effect. From a review of the literature, it was concluded that a clear distinction should be made between the effects of conventional and deconfounded contrast procedures. Different experimental apparatus also appeared to be …
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Neuropharmacological Mechanisms Underlying Incentive Salience and Stress
… processes associated with the attribution of incentive salience to salient stimuli. Using in vivo microdialysis, we assessed the role of nucleus accumbens (NAc) DA transmission in mediating conditioned approach behavior for food reward, and established that stress exposure blunts NAc DA …
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Experimental Essays on Incentive Contracts and Obedience
First and foremost, I want to thank my main supervisor Prof. Daniel Zizzo, for his invaluable advice, and continuous support throughout my PhD. I would also like to thank my second supervisor Dr. Anders Poulsen for his insightful comments and advice. I am grateful to my friend and fellow PhD …
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Cryptonetworks - The incentive-based Economics of Blockchain
… to benefit from reduced transaction costs and incentive maximisation of the market. In addition, the implementation of economics in today's cryptonetworks, often referred to as ‘cryptoeconomics', remains conventional and conservative, placing a limit on the potential of cryptonetworks. By …
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Employee share incentive schemes : an integrated approach
… examined in this thesis is how employee share incentive schemes are taxed in the hands of employers and employees. This involved an analysis of the new section 8B and 8C of the Income Tax Act ("the Act") as well as the old section 8A. Sections 10, 1 1 (a), 56 and the Fourth, Seventh and Eighth …
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Trends of the incentive travel market in Australia
… to establish the types of companies which use incentives, with particular emphasis on-incentive travel and the trends in usage. In line with these objectives, a survey targeting the top 500 companies in Australia was undertaken.
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Incentive programs and labor turnover in hospital foodservice
… Research in the business industry suggests using incentive programs to reward employees may improve performance. The purpose of this study was to determine types of monetary and non-monetary employee incentive programs offered in hospital foodservice operations and their effect on labor turnover …
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Incentive mechanism design for mobile crowd sensing systems
… in this thesis, I present a series of novel incentive mechanisms, which can be utilized to effectively incentivize worker participation in MCS systems. The proposed mechanisms not only incorporate workers' quality of information in order to selectively recruit relatively more reliable workers …
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Taxation as a real incentive for land conservation
… to investigate the opportunity to apply taxation incentives to promote land conservation in South Africa. This dissertation was conducted by means of a critical analysis of current legislation and data available in search of a suggested solution to finding appropriate tax incentives to encourage …
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Dynamic incentive scheme for rental vehicle fleet management
… will tend to accumulate inventory. Dynamic incentives can be provided to encourage different usage patterns and alleviate the problem of demand asymmetry. This thesis proposes a dynamic incentive scheme for rental vehicle fleet management in the context of Mobility on Demand. Simulation …
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Essays on Incentive Designs to Improve Market Performance
… an inefficiency in outcomes and proposes an incentive scheme to reduce the inefficiency. First Chapter: Coordination Problems, Leverage Constraints and Smart Contract Solutions for the Repo Market, co-authored with Robert M. Townsend. We identify two inefficiencies in the US treasury repo …
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The incentive effects of health-targeted social insurance
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1997.
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Incentive design for quality investment by smallholder producers
The food safety problem has been challenging the traditional operating model of Chinese agricultural supply chain. In the recent decades, more and more agribusinesses and cooperatives in China have adopted contract farming to strengthen food safety control during the sourcing process. Meanwhile, …
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