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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Incentive Design"”.
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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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Information, Learning and Incentive Design for Urban Transportation Networks
… in uncertain networks; 2) Market mechanism design for efficient carpooling and toll pricing in the presence of autonomous driving technology; 3) Security analysis and resource allocation for robustness under random or adversarial disruptions. Firstly, we present game-theoretic analysis to …
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Pricing and incentive design in applications of green technology subsidies and revenue management
… and demonstrate how to solve the policy design problem. We use this framework to show that the current policies in Germany could be improved by higher subsidies in the near future and a faster phase-out of the subsidy program. In the third part of the thesis, we model the interaction …
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Incentive Structures, Labour Performance, and Fruit Quality: Panel Evidence from a South African Deciduous Fruit Operation (2017–2019)
… including B1–C2 employees in a performance-based incentive scheme improves fruit quality in a South African deciduous fruit operation. Using a three-year panel (2017–2019) from five commercial farms managed by Crookes Brothers (Pty) Limited, the analysis isolates the association between incentive …
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Agency and incentive contract in private investment of transport project : an exploration of fundamental relationships
This thesis codifies and relates critical incentive-design and financial-contracting issue to the unique principal-agent circumstances generated from private investment of transport infrastructure and provides a framework for designing incentive contract and increasing future economic efficiency …
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Linear and Nonlinear Pricing for Network Games With Complete and Incomplete Information
… optimal linear and nonlinear pricing policy design for a monopolistic network service provider with various types of public and private information on user types. In the communication network pricing literature, it is the linear pricing schemes that have been largely adopted, and here we …
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Structuring public REIT-sponsored private capital fund : the case of US industrial and retail REITs
… gross fund assets, distribution frequent and incentive design. In addition, I argue that the private capital business of public REITs would not have grown successfully without fuel of the merchant development activities under the public REIT's framework. This is particularly true with respect …
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Three Essays in Labor Economics
… Using a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity (FRD) design around the introduction of the Ph.D. stream policy, which allowed international Ph.D. graduates to apply for PR without Canadian work experience, I find that expedited PR access reduces time to first employment but has limited impact on …
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Addressing agricultural salinity in the American West : harnessing behavioral diversity to institutional design
… as alternative non-monetary institutional incentives can address this performance issue, even in the face of conflicting economic pressures. I further demonstrate that exploiting social networks in non-economic incentive design can go even further in improving sustainability benefits. This …
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The Impact of Interpersonal Relationships and Incentive Structures on the Performance of Actors in Informal Supply Chains
… and third papers (Chapters 3 and 4) explore incentive design for distributed-task platforms. We use as a case study a supply chain for medical knowledge, featuring “informal” suppliers without formal contracts. Using data on 5,418 crowdsourcing contests for medical diagnosis, we examine how …
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Strategies for Effective Mitigation of Infectious Diseases, with Focus on COVID-19
We present a comprehensive approach to designing and optimizing infectious disease mitigation strategies, with a focus on COVID-19 and closed communities like college campuses. By integrating vaccination and routine screening, we first develop a model to evaluate the efficacy of various strategies …
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ESSAYS ON NUDGING CUSTOMERS’ BEHAVIORS: EVIDENCE FROM ONLINE GROCERY SHOPPING AND CROWDFUNDING
The dissertation consists of three essays that employ predictive analytics, structural modeling techniques and field experiments to understand and nudge customers’ behaviors in two types of online engagement platforms. The first one is customers’ purchase behaviors in an online grocery store and …
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Dynamic sequential decision problems with asymmetric information: some existence results
… problem pertains to a finite-horizon dynamic incentive design problem, in which the decision makers have asymmetric information at every stage of the game. A central agency designs incentives dynamically, so that decision makers behave in a desired manner at every stage of the game. The goal …
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The equity and efficiency of incentives to manage ecosystem services for natural resource conservation and rural development Case studies from Lombok, Indonesia and Alta Floresta, Mato Grosso, Brazil
Incentives to manage ecosystem services have been heralded as important mechanisms to increase efficiency in biodiversity conservation and to facilitate greater equity in the distribution of natural resources. These interventions aim to control the use of natural resources by altering resource …
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Analysis and design of blockchain systems
… the need for rigorous analysis and thoughtful design of blockchain protocols has become increasingly critical. This work focuses on the fundamental principles of blockchain systems, with a particular emphasis on analyzing Proof-of-Work (PoW) blockchains and designing new algorithms and …