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Incentivizing the Dynamic Workforce: Learning Contracts in the Gig-Economy [PDF]
Theoretical Computer Science, 2018 In principal-agent models, a principal offers a contract to an agent to perform a certain task. The agent exerts a level of effort that maximizes her utility.
Cohen, Alon +2 more
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IEEE Access, 2019 With the aid of optimal control theory, the cooperative advertising problem is discussed for a supply chain under consignment contract in a competitive environment.
Zhihui Wu, Dongyan Chen
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Comparison of the Optimal Production Path of Buy Back and Production Sharing Contracts: A Case Study of Foruzan Oil Field [PDF]
Pizhūhishnāmah-i Iqtiṣād-i Inirzhī-i Īrān, 2021 In this study, the optimum oil production pattern from the Frouzan oil field is extracted and compared using the generalized reduced gradient (GRG) optimal control method in the framework of Buy Back contract in the form of a scenario and the framework ...
Mohammad Shirijian, Ali Taherifard
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The Optimality of Team Contracts [PDF]
Games, 2013 This paper analyzes optimal contracts in a linear hidden-action model with normally distributed returns possessing two moments that are governed jointly by two agents who have negative exponential utilities. They can observe and verify each others’ effort levels and draft enforceable side-contracts on effort levels and realized returns.
Mehmet Barlo, Ayça Özdogan
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Optimal Contracts for Experimentation [PDF]
The Review of Economic Studies, 2016 This paper studies long-term contracts for experimentation in a principal-agent setting with adverse selection about the agent’s ability (pre-contractual hidden information), dynamic moral hazard, and private learning about project quality. We show that profit maximization by the principal generally leads to under-experimentation by an agent of low ...
Halac, Marina C. +2 more
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Effect of Contract Farming on the Income and Risk of Pistachio and Saffron Producers in Iran
Revista de Ciências Agroveterinárias, 2020 Contract farming is among the institutional arrangements essential for agricultural products. In most cases, these contracts lead to increased incomes and welfare of farmers. However, this type of business has not been taken seriously in Iran. This study
Mohammad Mehri Abarghouei +3 more
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The optimality of nominal contracts [PDF]
Economic Theory, 1998 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Guido Tabellini, Scott Freeman
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Executive compensation and firm performance: a non-linear relationship [PDF]
Problems and Perspectives in Management, 2019 In order to ensure profitability for shareholders, optimal contracting recommends the alignment between executive compensation and company performance. Large organizations have therefore adopted executives remuneration systems in order to induce positive
Rijamampianina Rasoava
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Optimal Purchasing Decisions with Supplier Default in Portfolio Procurement
Mathematics, 2022 As global public health events and regional conflicts have greater influence on supply chains nowadays, supplier default in procurement becomes more and more common in practice.
Xiaoqing Liu, Gongli Luo, Xinsheng Xu
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Optimal Decisions for Contract Farming under Weather Risk
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2022 Weather risk causes uncertain crop yield and price and further influences the willingness of farmers to participate in contract farming and honour the contract.
Xinping Wang, Shengnan Sun
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