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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Incentive Compatibility"”.
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Incentive Compatibility and Efficiency in the Contractual Insurer-Provider Relationship - Economic Theory and Practical Implications: The Case of North Carolina
… The focus lies on an ex ante alignment of incentive structures as well as on an efficient handling of conflicts of interest once a contract has been sealed (ex post). The theory based conclusions are contrasted with the situation in North Carolina, USA. Due to the implemented regulation, …
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Approaches to mechanism design with boundedly rational agents
… The first chapter investigates whether local incentive constraints are sufficient to logically imply full incentive-compatibility, in a variety of mechanism design settings. This can be motivated by a boundedly rational model in which agents cannot contemplate all possible misrepresentations, …
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The timing of constraints and the existence of efficient incentive compatible mechanisms
… transfers among economic agents to promote incentive compatibility and efficiency. My research focuses on studying certain aspects of the effect of incomplete information upon economic efficiency.
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Eliciting and Aggregating Information for Better Decision Making
… that the properties of Pareto efficiency, incentive compatibility, budget balance, and individual rationality are incompatible with one another. We propose two compromise solutions by relaxing either Pareto efficiency or incentive compatibility. Next, we consider the design of decentralized …
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Subjective Probabilities in Choice Experiments' Design: Three Essays
… I examine the potential correlation between incentive compatibility and validity of subjective probabilities elicited via the Exchangeability Method, an innovative elicitation mechanism which consists of several chained questions. Here, validity is investigated using de Finettiâ€ÂTMs …
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Analysis of Blockchain-based Smart Contracts for Peer-to-Peer Solar Electricity Transactive Markets
… markets to ensure individual rationality, incentive compatibility, budget balance, and economic efficiency during the trading process. This thesis creates an hour-ahead P2P energy trading network based on the Hyperledger Fabric blockchain and explores a comparative analysis of different …
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Tractable stochastic analysis in high dimensions via robust optimization
… that several desired system properties such as incentive compatibility and individual rationality in auction design and correct decoding in information theory are naturally expressed in the language of robust optimization. In this way, the performance analysis questions become highly structured …
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Essays on coalition formation under asymmetric information
… mechanism such that (i) coalitional mechanism is incentive-compatible and (ii) the payoff of this mechanism is strictly Pareto-improving in terms of the agent’s expected utility. Our analysis is undertaken in a one principal/two agent framework. We first ünd that the Revelation Principle is still …
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Prediction and optimization in school choice
… component. An advantage of this algorithm is incentive-compatibility, meaning that no student has incentives to misreport his/her preferences. The first research question of this thesis is how to optimize the menus and priorities so that students have equitable chances to go to the schools …
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Some Issues on Optimal Non-Linear Taxation
… is costly. We prove that low-skilled agents ' incentive compatibility constraint is never binding at the optimum, while high-skilled citizens' one is. Moreover, these latter are net taxpayers and, hence, a lump-sum tax is levied by the Social Planner. Relative to the standard closed-economy …
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Essays on dynamic public policy.
… poor agents with ideas receive is limited by incentive compatibility: the society should provide other agents with enough incentives so that they do not claim to be poor and have ideas. The paper then provides an implementation of the constrained-efficient allocation in an incomplete markets …
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Essays in Economics Under Uncertainty
… schemes in a hierarchy and we look at the incentive compatibility problem Finally, we deal with the issue of how the industry profits are distributed among the firms, in a way that asymmetries are captured. In the fourth chapter, we consider an industry where firms can choose their …
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Product Differentiation, Collusion, and Empirical Analyses of Market Power
… explores how product differentiation impacts the incentive compatibility condition for firms to sustain implicit collusion in games of repeated interaction where, in contrast to previous studies, I focus on a market which is simultaneously vertically and horizontally differentiated. To achieve …
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Incentive mechanism design in blockchain-based federated learning over edge clouds
… blockchain-enabled FL relies heavily on robust incentive mechanisms that can motivate contributions to both model training and the blockchain consensus process. This dissertation investigates and designs comprehensive, game-theoretic incentive mechanisms for blockchain-enabled federated edge …
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Frontiers In Operations Research For Overcoming Barriers To Vehicle Electrification
… pricing of electric vehicle charging considering incentives of both EV owners and utility companies. In the offline setting, information about future supply and demand is known to the scheduler. By considering uncertainty about future demand, we then designed a family of online mechanisms for …
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Essays in information elicitation and market design
… in this class. Finally, I consider a simple, non-incentive-compatible decision rule based on the median prediction that implements majority rule when all agents are strategic and improves on majority rule when an unknown subpopulation is honest. In ""Minimum truth serums with optional …
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Essays on the Economics of Information
… they give up some information rents to retain incentive compatibility. Unlike the conventional logic of quality under-provision for physical goods, here the attempt to capture information rents can lead to increased information disclosure. These findings shed light on the controversial matter …
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Resource-Efficient Collaborative Training and Inference of Foundation Models in Edge-AI
… problem, this thesis introduces PRINCE, a novel incentive mechanism tailored for multi-tenant Split Federated Learning (SFL), enabling resource-efficient fine-tuning of foundation models across multiple downstream tasks. By modeling self-interested device participation as a multi-leader …
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MANAGING DYNAMIC SPECTRUM ACCESS UNDER UNCERTAINTY IN COGNITIVE RADIO NETWORKS
… to an online auction scheme, which ensures incentive compatibility for the SUs and also provides a way for trading off social welfare and revenue.Fourth, we develop a distributed scheduling algorithm for SUs with i.i.d. arrival processes at PUs. Developing a distributed implementation that …
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Optimization-based auctions and stochastic assembly replenishment policies for industrial procurement
… insights on market behavior, efficiency and incentive compatibility issues through numerical simulations. In particular, experiments tend to show that suppliers might be relied upon to provide their own capacity information when procurement contracts are properly designed. The second part is …
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