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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Principal Agent Models"”.
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A Machine Learning-Based Heuristic to Explain Game-Theoretic Models
… (GT) to develop an interpretable heuristic for principal-agent models (PAM). We extract solution patterns from ensemble tree models trained on solved instances of a PAM. Using these patterns, we develop a hierarchical tree-based approach that forms an interpretable ML-based heuristic to solve …
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Evaluating the Impact of State Funding Vehicles of Appropriations and Financial Aid on Graduation Rates at Public Institutions: A Multilevel Analysis
<p>Guided by a theoretical framework derived from principal-agent models, persistence theories or college impact models, and microeconomic theory, the present study utilized multilevel modeling techniques to assess the correlation between state higher education funding vehicles of appropriations, …
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Incentive Mechanism Design for Systems with Many Agents: A Multiscale Decision Theory Approach
… interactions between decision-makers is through principal-agent models. Due to mathematical intractability, the majority of these models are restricted to the interaction between two decision-makers. However, modern organizations have many decision-makers that interact with each other in a …
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Three Essays in Macroeconomics
… system is designed to influence the individual agent's portfolio choice of debt and equity, which in turn endogenizes the leverage ratio. The optimum corporate tax is indeterminate, but a minimal level is ecessary. An immediate question is what happens to capital structure if we increase or …
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Drivers of Change: Explaining IMF Low Income Country Reform in the Post Washington Consensus
… member states. Patterns uncovered through principal-agent analysis suggest that coalition formation between at least two actors is a necessary condition for LIC policy reform. Principal-agent analysis also establishes that discontinuity among powerful states gives IMF management and staff …