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Government Incentive Contracts for Microgrid Users
Energies, 2021 Tariff subsidies are beneficial to the further development of the microgrid market. In response to the reduction of the power generation costs of microgrids, the energy storage subsidy for microgrids has become a key factor affecting their further ...
Yu GUANYI
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Incentive Contracts for a Queueing System with a Strategic Server: A Principal-Agent Perspective
Axioms, 2023 Queueing systems with strategic servers are common in the service industry. The self-interested service rate decision of the strategic server will be detrimental to the queueing system.
Tu Jun
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Blockchain-enhanced incentive-compatible mechanisms for multi-agent reinforcement learning systems [PDF]
Scientific ReportsEnsuring trust, fairness, and long-term efficiency in multi-agent systems poses significant challenges, particularly under partially competitive and decentralized settings where strategic manipulation and collusion can arise.
Ke Tian
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Standardized Sales Incentive Contracts Under Agent Heterogeneity
MathematicsSalespeople, as the core executors of product distribution, form a classical principal–agent relationship with the firm. A substantial body of academic research has focused on how firms can develop optimal sales incentive contracts in various scenarios ...
Duan Housheng
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Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2022 BackgroundFinancial incentive interventions for improving physical activity have proven to be effective but costly. Deposit contracts (in which participants pledge their own money) could be an affordable alternative.
David R de Buisonjé +11 more
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The Dynamics of Incentive Contracts [PDF]
Econometrica, 1988 The paper studies a simple two-period principal/agent model in which the principal updates the incentive scheme after observing the agent's first- period performance. The agent has superior information about his ability. The principal offers a first period incentive scheme and observes some measure of the agent's first-period performance (cost or ...
Laffont, Jean-Jacques, Tirole, Jean
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Auctioning Incentive Contracts [PDF]
Journal of Political Economy, 1987 This paper draws a remarkably simple bridge between auction theory and incentive theory. It considers the auctioning of an indivisible project among several fi rms. The firms have private information about their future cost at th e bidding stage, and the selected firm ex post invests in cost reduct ion. The authors show that (1) the optimal auction can
Laffont, Jean-Jacques, Tirole, Jean
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Contracts, Fairness, and Incentives [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2004 We show experimentally that fairness concerns may have a decisive impact on both the actual and the optimal choice of contracts in a moral hazard context. Explicit incentive contracts that are optimal according to self-interest theory become inferior when some agents value fairness.
Fehr, Ernst +2 more
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International Journal of Strategic Property Management, 2022 The performance-based payment PPP model has been widely used in the infrastructure projects. However, the ratchet effect derived from performance-based reputation incentives has been largely overlooked.
Huimin Li +5 more
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A pilot randomized trial of incentive strategies to promote HIV retesting in rural Uganda.
PLoS ONE, 2020 BackgroundRetesting for HIV is critical to identifying newly-infected persons and reinforcing prevention efforts among at-risk adults. Incentives can increase one-time HIV testing, but their role in promoting retesting is unknown.
Gabriel Chamie +7 more
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