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Certain Incentives vs. Uncertain Incentives

open access: yesMaketingu Janaru, 2021
Among sales promotion tools, both certain and uncertain incentives are frequently used by firms. On the one hand, certain incentives refer to incentives for which consumers can always get rewards. By contrast, uncertain incentives refer to incentives for
Naoya Mori
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Incentives in HMOs [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2001
We study the effect of physician incentives in an HMO network. Physician incentives are controversial because they may induce doctors to make treatment decisions that differ from those they would chose in the absence of incentives. We set out a theoretical framework for assessing the degree to which incentive contracts do in fact induce physicians to ...
Martin Gaynor   +2 more
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Incentives [PDF]

open access: yes
We model organization as the command-and-communication network of managers erected on top of technology (which is modeled as a collection of plants). In our framework, the role of a manager is to deal with shocks that affect the plants that he oversees ...
Chenggang Xu, Eric Maskin, Yingyi Qian
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Green roofs – good regulatory practices with potential to be applied in Bulgaria and North Macedonia [PDF]

open access: yesSilva Balcanica, 2021
Green roofs are used worldwide to mitigate the impacts of extensive urbanization, bringing benefits on social, economic, and environmental levels. In order to promote and facilitate the construction of green roofs by private investors, many countries ...
Mariam Bozhilova   +3 more
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Incentives for separation and incentives for public good provision [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
In this paper I examine the incentives of regions to unite, to separate and to provide public goods. Separation allows for greater influence over the nature of political decision making while unification allows regions to exploit economies of scale in ...
Staal, Klaas
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An Evaluation Model for Foreign Direct Investment Performance of Free Trade Port Zones

open access: yesPromet (Zagreb), 2021
With the tendency of internationalisation and globalisation, signing regional economic agreements among multiple countries has become a trend. Under such an integration environment, some free economic zones with port transportation functions have become ...
Wen-Kai K. Hsu   +2 more
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Towards Patient-Centered Conflicts of Interest Policy [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2018
Financial conflicts of interest exist between industry and physicians, and these relationships have the power to influence physicians’ medical practice.
Peter D. Young   +2 more
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Improving Support Systems for Cocoa Farmers beyond Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus Disease Infestation

open access: yesJurnal Social Economic of Agriculture, 2023
Cocoa swollen shoot virus disease (CSSVD) has severely hampered the production of cocoa in Ghana since pre-colonial days. The Ghana Cocoa Board has put several measures in place to support cocoa farmers in the fight against the CSSVD.
Tetteh Adesah   +3 more
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An experimental test of the deterrence hypothesis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Crime has to be punished, but does punishment reduce crime? We conduct a neutrally framed laboratory experiment to test the deterrence hypothesis, namely that crime is weakly decreasing in deterrent incentives, i.e. severity and probability of punishment.
Hörisch, Hannah, Strassmair, Christina
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AGRICULTURAL BUDGET IN THE FUNCTION OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT IN SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO

open access: yesEkonomika Poljoprivrede (1979), 2023
Organic agricultural production requires higher financial investments than conventional agricultural production. Seed prices are higher, labor costs are higher, and there is the additional cost of certification.
Gordana Radović   +2 more
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