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Journal of Business Economics and Management, 2014 Communication risk is of crucial importance in construction projects. The situation in which one of the project parties is better informed than another is known as information asymmetry. This problem is addressed by the principal-agent theory.
Anita Ceric
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Structural Estimation with a Randomized Trial of a Principal Agent Model of Medical Insurance with Moral Hazard [PDF]
Despite the importance of principal-agent models in the development of modern economic theory, there are few estimations of these models. We contribute to fill this gap in a field where moral hazard has traditionally been considered important: the ...
Vera-Hernandez, Marcos
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FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.This study explores the feasibility of expressing the antitumoral protein Amblyomin‐X through a suicide gene therapy approach and investigates its intracellular fate after gene delivery. Although the gene is efficiently expressed, melanoma cells rapidly degrade the Amblyomin‐X protein via proteasome activity.
Victor Dal Posolo Cinel +4 more
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The Agency Theory Applied to the Investment Funds
BBR: Brazilian Business Review, 2004 This article seeks to verify the existence of a relationship between the rate of remuneration charged by the administrators of investment funds and the profitability of these portfolios, under the perspective of the Agency Theory. The Agency Theory seeks
Flávia Zóboli Dalmácio +1 more
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Why Does it Matter that Beliefs and Valuations be Correctly Represented? [PDF]
This paper contains an analysis of a simple principal-agent problem illustrating possible problems that may arise when the prinicpal ascribes to the agent subjective probabilities and utilities that are implied by the subjective expected utility model ...
Grant, S., Karni, E.
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Digital twins to accelerate target identification and drug development for immune‐mediated disorders
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.Digital twins integrate patient‐derived molecular and clinical data into personalised computational models that simulate disease mechanisms. They enable rapid identification and validation of therapeutic targets, prediction of drug responses, and prioritisation of candidate interventions.
Anna Niarakis, Philippe Moingeon
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Теорія і практика правознавства, 2016 The author made a research of the reasons for formation of the institution of self-regulatory organizations, and explained the basic concepts of the legal nature of these institutions in modern democracies.
Н. Ю. Філатова
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Fairness and Incentives in a Multi-Task Principal-Agent Model [PDF]
This paper reports on a two-task principal-agent experiment in which only one task is contractible. The principal can either offer a piece-rate contract or a (voluntary) bonus to the agent. Bonus contracts strongly outperform piece rate contracts.
Fehr, Ernst, Schmidt, Klaus M.
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FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.Chemotherapy side effects significantly impact cancer survivors' quality of life. Using protein levels in blood samples from breast cancer patients before and after 12 weeks of taxane treatment, we detected treatment‐dependent changes in calcium signaling and aging pathways associated with cancer recurrence.
Saira Munshani +6 more
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Economic Theories and the Science of Inter-Branch Relations [PDF]
One of the fastest-developing areas of political science studies the relationship between the different branches of government. Within that literature, the most popular research questions concern the delegation of powers by one branch to another, the ...
Yannis Karagiannis
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