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Three Essays on Corruption and Collusion
<p>This dissertation studies corruption and collusion with data derived from a laboratory experiment and household data. In Chapter 1 I study experimental procurement auctions with bribery and a public reserve to test for the tacitly collusive equilibrium described by Compte et al. (2005). Three …
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Steganography and collusion in cryptographic protocols
… inside legitimate protocol traffic. Such collusion is devastating in many settings, and thus we argue that it's elimination is an important direction for cryptographic research. Defeating such steganographic collusion requires not only new cryptographic protocols, but also a new notion of …
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The enforcement of collusion in oligopoly
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, 1981
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Three essays in economic theory--collusion, delegation, and search
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1990.
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Product Differentiation, Collusion, and Empirical Analyses of Market Power
… 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 this objective, vertical differentiation is incorporated into an …
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Usable Post-Classification Visualizations for Android Collusion Detection and Inspection
Android malware collusion is a new threat model that occurs when multiple Android apps communicate in order to execute an attack. This threat model threatens all Android users' private information and system resource security. Although recent research has made advances in collusion detection and …
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The regulation of irregular work in Japan : from collusion to conflict
Japan's labor markets are clearly segmented between regular and irregular workers. Regular workers enjoy employment stability, good wages and promotion, and access to good pensions and health plans. Irregular workers-contract, dispatch and part time workers-can be fired easily, are paid less, and …
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An Exploration of Feminist Family Therapists' Resistance to and Collusion with Oppression
… encourage exploration of, resistance to, and collusion with, oppression. I explore qualitatively the critical dialogues, both inner, and with others, that feminist family therapists employ to address oppressive systems. My research questions are: a. How do family therapists who identify as …
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International regulation of official trade finance : competition and collusion in export credits and foreign aid
Advanced industrial countries provide over $120 billion annually on various terms and conditions to support exports and investments abroad. The regime governing these official trade finance (OTF) flows has puzzling features. The legal basis of the regime, officially known as the Arrangement on …
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Collusion, crime, and the death of downtown : a study of firm relocation in Johannesburg, South Africa
This study explores the dynamics of firm relocation in Johannesburg, South Africa, by analyzing the mass exodus of firms out of the city's Central Business District (CBD) over the past two decades. Using a historical approach, this study examines the interplay between urban form and firm behavior. …
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Hybrid governance in the global south: A case study of collusion within the South African construction industry
… construction industry through a case study of collusion in the South African construction industry to build the 2010 FIFA World Cup stadiums. The research goes beyond arguing for a plurality of governance actors and draws on the concept of hybridity to highlight the contestations that …
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Caste, collusion and conflict: An ethnographic study of factors affecting the dropout of Mexican-American students in a Chicago barrio elementary school
The alarmingly high rate of secondary school dropout among Mexican-origin students in the United States has been well documented statistically, but little has been written on the school experiences of these students in barrio elementary schools of northern states. This study aims to fill the gap by …
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FIFE : a Framework for Investigating Functional Encryption
… function on that message. We look at bounded-collusion functional encryption, where the number of keys for which security is guaranteed is bounded, as it is possible to realize using standard building blocks. For such schemes we aim to understand their practicality for real-world applications. …
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User-Intention Based Program Analysis for Android Security
… scanning tools. Second, we present a new app collusion detection approach and algorithms to analyze pairs or groups of communicating apps. App collusion is a new technique utilized by the attackers to evade standard detection. It is a new threat where two or more apps, appearing benign, …
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Behavior Modeling and Forensics for Multimedia Social Networks
… social network. Furthermore, before a collusion being successfully mounted, the colluders must be stimulated to cooperate with each other and all colluders have to agree on the attack strategy. Therefore, not all types of collusion are possible. We reduce the possible collusion set by …
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Adding Tournament to Tournament: The Interactive Effect of Team and Individual Incentives
… theories, I examine whether both free-riding and collusion problems can be simultaneously mitigated when a combination of individual and team incentive systems are used. Consistent with the extended Nitzan's (1991) nested contest economic model and social identity theory (SIT), I find that when a …
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Optimal tenure choice and collusive behavior in contract negotiation models
… rise to the possibility of supervisor-agent collusion which lowers the principal's profits. It has also been shown that the transfer of information in side contract negotiations between the supervisor and the agent may hinder collusion and maintain high principal profits. In chapter 2, I show …
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