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Commitment and optimal incentive [PDF]
We propose an extended principal-agent model considering employee commitment and describe how to motivate committed agent, who not only shows regard for his own income but also cares the organizational benefit.
Liu, Taoxiong, Zhou, Bihua
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Incentive-Centered Design for Security [PDF]
IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine, 2009 Security problems are incentives problems: we build defenses because people want to do things that (intentionally or inadvertently) cause harm. Yet, much research disregards systematic study of the motivations of smart, responsive, autonomous humans in the loop. Meanwhile, the maturing sciences of motivated behavior offer a growing body of theoretical,
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An Incentive Mechanism Based on Lottery for Data Quality in Mobile Crowdsensing
MathematicsMobile Crowdsensing (MCS) leverages smart devices within sensing networks to gather data. Given that data collection demands specific resources, such as device power and network bandwidth, many users are reluctant to participate in MCS.
Xinyu Hu +3 more
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Optimal Income Taxation and Public Goods Provision in a Large Economy with Aggregate Uncertainty [PDF]
We study a large economy model in which individuals have private information about their productive abilities and their preferences. Moreover, there is aggregate uncertainty so that the social benefits from taxation and public goods provision are a ...
Felix Bierbrauer
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Mechanism Design Under Approximate Incentive Compatibility
Operations ResearchAn assumption that is pervasive in revenue management and economics is that buyers are perfect optimizers. However, in practice, buyers may be limited by their computational capabilities or lack of information and may not be able to perfectly optimize their response to a selling mechanism.
Santiago R. Balseiro +2 more
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Public Health NutritionObjective: FoodRx is a 12-month healthy food prescription incentive program for people with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and experiences of household food insecurity.
Saania Tariq +8 more
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Optimal transport and incentive design in multi-agent economic control
Results in Control and OptimizationThis paper develops a principled framework for incentive design in multi-agent economic systems using tools from optimal transport (OT) theory and decentralized control.
Ramen Ghosh
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Incentive Mechanism of Online Leaning Based on Blockchain [PDF]
ITM Web of ConferencesIncentive mechanism plays an important role in online education. In order to better play the role of the incentive mechanism, it must rely on contemporary information technology, such as blockchain technology, big data technology and so on. In this paper
Liu Shukun +4 more
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Incentives vs. Selection in Promotion Tournaments: Can a Designer Kill Two Birds with One Stone? [PDF]
This paper studies the performance of promotion tournaments with heterogeneous participants in two dimensions: incentive provision and selection. Our theoretical analysis reveals a trade-off for the tournament designer between the two goals: While total ...
Höchtl, Wolfgang +3 more
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Performance-Based Compensation: Design and Implementation at Six Teacher Incentive Fund Sites [PDF]
, 2010 Examines preliminary outcomes for student achievement, stakeholder support, recruitment and retention, and changes in school cultures; success factors; challenges; and the role of states and districts in implementation and financial ...
Jonathan Eckert
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