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Coordinating EV Charging via Blockchain
Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy, 2020 The increasing electric vehicle (EV) penetration in a distribution network triggers the need for EV charging coordination. This paper firstly proposes a hierarchical EV charging coordination model and an algorithm based on Lagrangian relaxation.
Jian Ping +4 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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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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Strategic Analysis of Influence Peddling [PDF]
This paper analyzes "Influence Peddling" with interaction between human capital transfer and collusion-building aspects in a model, in which each government official regulates multiple firms simultaneously.
Majumdar, Mukul, Yoo, Seung Han
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The Dark Pyramid: Unpacking the Multidimensional Nature of the Dark Side of Leadership
British Journal of Management, EarlyView.Abstract The dark side of leadership has been employed as an umbrella term to cover an array of concepts typically concerned with the dysfunctionality and/or toxicity of individual leaders. As the field of leadership studies moves towards ‘post‐heroic’ perspectives, we apply the same ontological positioning, adopting a ‘post‐villainous’ perspective in ...
Peter Stephenson +2 more
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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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Optimal Collusion under Cost Asymmetry [PDF]
Cost asymmetry is generally thought to hinder collusion because a more efficient firm has both more to gain from a deviation and less to fear from retaliation than less efficient firms.
Miklos-Thal, Jeanine
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‘Let's Turn the Grass Into Meat’: Animal Husbandry as Women's Work in Cold War North Korea
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In postcolonial North Korea, the future of the nation was said to be a function of the feedlot. Unobtainable on the battlefields of the recently ended Korean War, liberation and unification of the peninsula became a question of competitive developmentalism.
Sunho Ko, Derek J. Kramer
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Firms Ability to Collude [PDF]
We examine a duopoly with polluting production where firms adopt a form of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to define their objective functions. Our analysis focusses on the bearings of CSR on collusion over an infinite horizon, sustained by either ...
A. Tampieri, L. Lambertini
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History, EarlyView.Abstract In the summer of 1919, W. T. Goode, the Manchester Guardian’s special correspondent in Russia and the Baltic, was arrested in the Estonian capital Tallinn and briefly detained aboard a British warship. Goode's detention caused a furore, leading to accusations of kidnap, heated commentary in the press and questions in parliament.
Colin Storer
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