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Green roofs – good regulatory practices with potential to be applied in Bulgaria and North Macedonia [PDF]
Silva 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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Leadership and Incentives [PDF]
Management Science, 2016 We study how leader compensation affects public goods provision. We report from a lab experiment with four treatments, where the base treatment was a standard public goods game with simultaneous contribution decisions, and the three other treatments allowed participants to volunteer to be the leader in their group and make their contribution before ...
Alexander W. Cappelen +3 more
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Journal of Political Economy, 2009 We study a model where a decision maker (DM) must select an adviser to advise her about an unknown state of the world. There is a pool of available advisers who all have the same underlying preferences as the DM; they differ, however, in their prior beliefs about the state, which we interpret as differences of opinion. We derive a tradeoff faced by the
Che, Yeon-Koo, Kartik, Navin
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Certain Incentives vs. Uncertain Incentives
Maketingu 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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SSRN 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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An Evaluation Model for Foreign Direct Investment Performance of Free Trade Port Zones
Promet (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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Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, 2020 “Big data” gives markets access to previously unmeasured characteristics of individual agents. Policymakers must decide whether and how to regulate the use of this data. We study how new data affects incentives for agents to exert effort in settings such as the labor market, where an agent's quality is initially unknown but is forecast from an ...
Liang, Annie, Madsen, Erik
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Towards Patient-Centered Conflicts of Interest Policy [PDF]
International 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
Jurnal 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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AGRICULTURAL BUDGET IN THE FUNCTION OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT IN SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
Ekonomika 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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