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A Note on Patents and Leniency
Gospodarka Narodowa. The Polish Journal of Economics, 2020 The purpose of this note is to investigate the relationship between patents and market collusion. Specifically, by using game theory tools, it is shown that patents can act as a leniency mechanism, i.e., they can enable firms to leave a cartel without ...
Adam Karbowski
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Accelerating m‐Invariance for Continuous Big Data Publishing
IEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, EarlyView.To prevent personal information leakage from the collection and publication of big data, anonymization techniques that protect privacy while preserving data utility are essential. In particular, m‐invariance provides privacy protection for dynamic datasets that are continuously published as records are updated.
Kentaro Morise, Hiroaki Nishi
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Bidder Network Community Division and Collusion Suspicion Analysis in Chinese Construction Projects
Advances in Civil Engineering, 2020 Bidder collusion seriously undermines the fair competition of the construction project market, and effective identification of collusion behaviors is of vital importance to the implementation of proactive regulation and supervision.
Jiwei Zhu +3 more
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Collusion in Hierarchical Agency [PDF]
Econometrica, 1993 In this model, shareholders can use auditors' reports to contract with a privately-informed manager. Imperfect audit technology allows the auditor and the manager to collude. Auditors are useful when they have good information and the manager's liability is high.
Kofman, Fred, Lawarree, Jacques
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New Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 17-23, Spring 2025.ABSTRACT This article links the connection between music and leadership, exploring ways to connect musical icons to teaching leadership theory and concepts. The authors utilize the relationship leadership model (RLM) and the leadership identity development (LID) model through case studies of Beyoncé Knowles‐Carter and Taylor Swift. We provide questions
Sanithia Tucker, Kaley Vincent
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A test of collusive behavior based on incentives [PDF]
, 2008 This paper proposes a novel collusion test based on the analysis of incentives faced by each firm in a colluding coalition. In fact, once collusion is in effect, each colluding firm faces the incentive to secretly deviate from the agreement, since it ...
Cabral, Ricardo
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Optimality of linearity with collusion and renegotiation [PDF]
, 2011 This study analyzes a continuous-time N-agent Brownian hidden-action model with exponential utilities, in which agents' actions jointly determine the mean and the variance of the outcome process.
Barlo, Mehmet +2 more
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A secured cloud‐medical data sharing with A‐BRSA and Salp ‐Ant Lion Optimisation Algorithm
CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Sharing medical data among healthcare providers, researchers, and patients is crucial for efficient healthcare services. Cloud‐assisted smart healthcare (s‐healthcare) systems have made it easier to store EHRs effectively. However, the traditional encryption algorithms used to secure this data can be vulnerable to attacks if the encryption key
Adel Binbusayyis +7 more
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Testing for Collusion in Asymmetric First-Price Auctions [PDF]
This paper proposes fully nonparametric tests to detect possible collusion in first-price procurement (auctions). The aim of the tests is to detect possible collusion before knowing whether or not bidders are colluding.
Gaurab Aryal, Maria F. Gabrielli
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Revista de Defesa da ConcorrênciaObjective: the aim of this article was to detect economic signs of cartel in the resale of LPG in the Brazilian cities of Campina Grande-PB, Caruaru-PE, Jaboatão dos Guararapes-PE, and Recife-PE; the first market condemned by the Administrative Council ...
Rosangela Aparecida Soares Fernandes +2 more
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