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IEEE Access, 2019 With the development of information technology, various data-driven intelligent services have changed our daily life greatly. As the data fuels the development of these services, data sharing is desirable for data availability issues. Many mechanisms and
Bingyi Guo +4 more
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Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, 2021 Recently, the showroom model has developed fast for allowing consumers to evaluate a product offline and then buy it online. This paper aims at exploring the optimal information acquisition strategy and its incentive contracts in an e-commerce supply ...
Mengli Li, Xumei Zhang
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Revista Contabilidade & Finanças, 2015 This study compares the use of forward-looking and contemporary performance measurement in incentive contracts in the presence of the horizon problem. To do this, we used a single-factor experiment between pre- and post-treatment subjects, with a control
Luis Paulo Guimarães dos Santos
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Entropy, 2019 In the management of intermodal transportation, incentive contract design problem has significant impacts on the benefit of a multimodal transport operator (MTO). In this paper, we analyze a typical water-rail-road (WRR) intermodal transportation that is
Wenying Zhang, Xifu Wang, Kai Yang
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International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2022 By utilizing the mobile terminals’ sensing and computing capabilities, mobile crowdsourcing network is considered to be a promising technology to support the various large-scale sensing applications.
Nan Zhao +3 more
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Strategic Delegation By Unobservable Incentive Contracts [PDF]
Review of Economic Studies, 2002 Many strategic interactions in the real world take place among delegates empowered to act on behalf of others. Although there may be a multitude of reasons why delegation arises in reality, one intriguing possibility is that it yields a strategic advantage to the delegating party.
Kockesen, Levent, Ok, Efe A.
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Successive duopoly under moral hazard: Will incentive contracts persist?
Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management, 2009 The central purpose of this paper is to examine the incentive contract as an equilibrium phenomenon. We analyse a model of vertical differentiation in which we deal with the strategic role of the competitor’s decisions in a successive duopoly.
Marta Fernández-Olmos +3 more
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Incentive effects of funding contracts: an experiment [PDF]
Experimental Economics, 2014 AbstractWe examine the incentive effects of funding contracts on entrepreneurial effort and on allocative efficiency. We experiment with funding contracts that differ in the structure of investor repayment and, thus, in their incentives for the provision of entrepreneurial effort. Theoretically the replacement of a standard debt contract by a repayment-
Reiß, J. Philipp, Wolff, Irenaeus
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Pediatric supportive care clinical trials often involve multiple clinically important outcomes, complicating trial interpretation. Hierarchical composite endpoints (HCEs) provide a framework to integrate key outcomes according to clinical importance.
Willem H. Collier +11 more
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Supervision and Incentive Mechanism Design in Technological Innovation of Public Goods
SystemsThe commissioning of private suppliers to conduct technological research and development (R&D) has become a central instrument for the public sector to promote technological innovation in public goods.
Jianan Zhou, Weijun Zhong, Shue Mei
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