Patient preferences and willingness-to-pay for a home or clinic based program of chronic heart failure management: findings from the Which? trial. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2013 BACKGROUND Beyond examining their overall cost-effectiveness and mechanisms of effect, it is important to understand patient preferences for the delivery of different modes of chronic heart failure management programs (CHF-MPs).
Whitty JA +10 more
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Chain: A Dynamic Double Auction Framework for Matching Patient Agents [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper we present and evaluate a general framework for the design of truthful auctions for matching agents in a dynamic, two-sided market. A single commodity, such as a resource or a task, is bought and sold by multiple buyers and sellers that ...
Bredin, J. L., Duong, Q., Parkes, D. C.
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Smoothness for Simultaneous Composition of Mechanisms with Admission
, 2016 We study social welfare of learning outcomes in mechanisms with admission. In our repeated game there are $n$ bidders and $m$ mechanisms, and in each round each mechanism is available for each bidder only with a certain probability.
G Christodoulou +3 more
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Optimal procurement mechanism with observable quality [PDF]
, 1995 In a procurement contract the Administration usually has some prior information about the quality of the bidding firms. The goal of this article is to characterize the optimal mechanism in such a situation, when firms have private information about their
Ganuza, Juan-José
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The relevance of primary dealers for public bond issues [PDF]
, 1999 We analyze the role of different kinds of primary and secondary market interventions for the government's goal to maximize its revenues from public bond issuances.
Breuer, Wolfgang
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Optimal Pricing Effect on Equilibrium Behaviors of Delay-Sensitive Users in Cognitive Radio Networks [PDF]
, 2012 This paper studies price-based spectrum access control in cognitive radio networks, which characterizes network operators' service provisions to delay-sensitive secondary users (SUs) via pricing strategies.
Choong Seon Hong +5 more
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Cloud capacity planning and HSI based optimal resource provisioning [PDF]
, 2017 Cloud service providers offer spot instances through highest bidding plans that are at a very economical price compared to other pricing plans, namely on-demand and reservation. The usage of spot instance enables utilization of idle resources and provide
Goudar, R.S. +2 more
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Efficient promotion of renewable energy with reverse auctions [PDF]
, 2015 Despite negative experiences with auctioning off subsidies for renewable energy in some countries, tenders are increasingly used today. We develop a reverse auction which accounts for particularities of intermittent renewable energy sources.
Schulten, Lisa, Schäfer, Sebastian
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Innovation Contests with Entry Auction [PDF]
, 2010 We consider procurement of an innovation from heterogeneous sellers. Innovations are random but depend on unobservable effort and private information. We compare two procurement mechanisms where potential sellers first bid in an auction for admission to ...
Giebe, Thomas
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Bundling Payment for Episodes of Hospital Care: Issues and Recommendations for the New Pilot Program in Medicare [PDF]
, 2011 Outlines the 2010 healthcare reform's provision to launch a pilot project for bundling Medicare payments around hospitalization episodes of care, the rationale for hospital episode bundling, and guidance on designing an effective pilot ...
Harriet L. Komisar +2 more
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