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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"Market Mechanisms"”.
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Efficiency loss in market mechanisms for resource allocation
… are counterbalanced by the need to design mechanisms that efficiently allocate resources, even when the system is being used by participants who have only their own best interests at stake. We consider the design of resource allocation mechanisms in such environments. The analytic approach …
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Mitigating airport congestion : market mechanisms and airline response models
… and activity rules. An aspect of airport slot market environments, which we argue must be considered in auction design, is the fact that the participating airlines are budget-constrained. -- The problem of finding the best bundle of slots on which to bid in an iterative combinatorial auction, …
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Market Mechanisms for Service Provider Operations in Advanced Air Mobility
… air mobility, Shapley value, service providers, market mechanisms
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Efficiency loss in a class of two-sided market mechanisms
… analyze the efficiency loss of certain two-sided market mechanisms involving both consumers and suppliers that are natural extensions of Johari's thesis. After gaining intuition about the mechanisms, we show that their worst case efficiency loss approaches 100%. We then introduce some supply-side …
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Local Market Mechanisms: how Local Markets can shape the Energy Transition
… has increasingly focused on the concept of markets in all their facets. This thesis seeks to answer the following questions: How can markets, often considered abstract and accessible only to high-level users, be integrated for end-users? How can market mechanisms be leveraged across various …
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Chinese iron and steel industry in transition : toward market mechanisms and economic efficiency
… enterprises towards greater reliance on the market mechanism and away from government planning. The latter movement has led to the development of market mechanisms in Chinese industry, but the bureaucratic decentralization has restricted the development of a national market and encouraged …
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Chinese iron and steel industry in transition : toward market mechanisms and economic efficiency
… enterprises towards greater reliance on the market mechanism and away from government planning. The latter movement has led to the development of market mechanisms in Chinese industry, but the bureaucratic decentralization has restricted the development of a national market and encouraged …
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Development of Market Mechanisms Under International Law to Advance Sustainable Development: An Analysis of the Frameworks Related to Climate Change and Biodiversity
… relationship between the legal architecture of market mechanisms under international law and the role of private actors, and how this contributes to sustainable development. Through an exploration of how market mechanisms under the climate change and biodiversity regimes have achieved …
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Social network effects on information aggregation
… populations beliefs and data aggregation using market mechanisms. On comparing the entropy of the error of between the prediction of each of these different methods with the truth, preliminary results suggest that sociometric data does indeed improve the enterprise of information aggregation. …
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Reciprocities market : John Bartram's 18th century botanical subscription service and the seeds of independence
This dissertation "Reciprocities Market: John Bartram's 18th Century Botanical Subscription Service and the Seeds of Independence," delves into the evolving social and economic relationships of 18th-century colonial America through the lens of John Bartram's work and network. Bartram (1699-1777), a …
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An assessment of ecological impacts of community-based restoration on communal grasslands in the Drakensberg foothills
… water security. However, before such alternative market mechanisms can be considered, the effects of community based restoration must be properly quantified. The primary aim of this study was to determine some of the ecological impacts of community based restoration in these communal grasslands.
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The applicability of new public management to developing countries: a case from Nepal
… performance management, introduction of market mechanisms, changes in personnel systems and quality and customer responsiveness. The term 'applicability' was determined by the perceived usefulness of NPM to stakeholders. The main focus of this research was to find an answer to the …
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Home Care Service Delivery: Proprietary Versus Non-Proprietary Organizations
… addresses the comparative effectiveness of a market mechanism. Is it superior to a government/voluntary mechanism in the delivery of community-based social services? The proprietary organizations examined reflect the assumptions of a market mechanism while the non-proprietary organizations …
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A study verifying the simulation of market trading with Dynamic Pari-Mutuel mechanism using Python
… not limited to horse racing, casinos, financial markets and stock trading. Several market mechanisms are used in these markets to predict the outcome based on the available information and make an educated decision in an investment involving huge risks. One such market mechanism is the Dynamic …
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Technology transition in the national air transportation system : market failure and game theoretic analysis with application to ADS-B
… barriers, and knowledge of ADS-B is presented. Market mechanisms that could potentially cause technology implementation failure are identified through game theoretic analysis of airline interview data. Potential market failures identified include public goods failures, cost-benefit asymmetries, …
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A Game Theoretic Analysis of Agent -Mediated Resource Allocation
… and network resources. We consider the use of market mechanisms to regulate a set of autonomous agents that are responsible for obtaining services. By applying game-theoretic analysis to a proportionally fair divisible auction, we show the existence of a unique Nash equilibrium in both single …
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The Interplay Between Economic Growth and the Environment: The Case of China
… and foreign investment as well as a reliance on market mechanisms. Ultimately, the goal of neoliberalism is to generate growth regardless of the impact that it places on the environment. The case of China presents an example of an economy which pursued a market transformation and neoliberal …
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Tapping into the pulse of the market : essays on marketing implications of information flows
… to penetrate consumer households, online marketing is getting increasingly important for firms. By adapting to online strategies, firms are blessed (or doomed) with a plethora of new business models. The information flows created in the process poses both opportunities and challenges for …
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Performance measurement and signaling in the humanitarian marketplace
… (IRS). This thesis argues that the humanitarian "market" today exists in a newly competitive state defined by this paper as "response-leadership." The humanitarian sector thus mirrors concentrated for-profit markets that embody the price-leadership model. This thesis finally suggests governmental …
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Chinese housing mixology : considerations for the successful development of mixed-income housing
… system of housing provision and introduced market mechanisms. The consequent boom in residential real estate development and the emergence of speculative practices dramatically increased housing prices in cities. Low- and moderate-income households are being priced out of homeownership. The …
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