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A dynamic performance-based payment mechanism for Public-Private Partnership projects: An integrated model for principal-agent and multi-objective optimization models

International Journal of Strategic Property Management
Performance-based payment mechanism is one of the key issues to ensure all stakeholders’ benefits in infrastructure Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects.
Yongchao Cao, Huimin Li, Limin Su
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Optimal contracts in a dynamic costly state verification model [PDF]

This paper describes optimal contracts in a dynamic costly state verification model with stochastic monitoring. An agent operates a risky project on behalf of a principal over several periods.
Monnet, Cyril, Quintin, Erwan
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Glymphatic Dysfunction Reflects Post‐Concussion Symptoms: Changes Within 1 Month and After 3 Months

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) may alter glymphatic function; however, its progression and variability remain obscure. This study examined glymphatic function following mTBI within 1 month and after 3 months post‐injury to determine whether variations in glymphatic function are associated with post‐traumatic symptom severity ...
Eunkyung Kim, Han Gil Seo, Roh‐Eul Yoo, Byung‐Mo Oh   +3 more
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The state-contingent approach to production under uncertainty [PDF]

The central claim of this paper is that the state-contingent approach provides the best way to think about all problems in the economics of uncertainty, including problems of consumer choice, the theory of the firm, and principal–agent relationships ...
Chambers, Robert G., Quiggin, John C.
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Integrated demand response optimization strategy considering risk appetite under multi‐dimensional uncertain information

IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution
Integrated demand response (IDR) is deemed as an effective tool to balance energy supply and demand. User’s uncertain information containing prior uncertain information and posterior uncertain information is a key factor affecting the implementation ...
Shunlin Zheng, Yaliang Liu, Yi Sun, Xinpeng Mo, Liming Feng, Xinya Liu, Quan Chao, Wangzhang Cao   +7 more
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Endogenous Market Structures and Contract Theory. Delegation, principal-agent contracts, screening, franchising and tying [PDF]

I study the role of unilateral strategic contracts for firms active in markets with price competition and endogenous entry. Traditional results change substantially when the market structure is endogenous rather than exogenous.
Etro Federico
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Baseline Regional Cholinergic Denervation Predicts Cognitive Trajectories in Moderate Parkinson Disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Cognitive decline is a disabling and variable feature of Parkinson disease (PD). While cholinergic system degeneration is linked to cognitive impairments in PD, most prior research reported cross‐sectional associations. We aimed to fill this gap by investigating whether baseline regional cerebral vesicular acetylcholine transporter ...
Taylor Brown, Giulia Carli, Prabesh Kanel, Stiven Roytman, Jaimie Barr, Nicolaas I. Bohnen, Roger L. Albin   +6 more
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Externalities and the Allocation of Decision Rights in the Theory of the Firm [PDF]

This paper views authority as the right to undertake decisions that have external effects on other members of the organization. Because of contractual incompleteness, monetary incentives are insufficient to internalize these effects in the decision maker’
Bester, Helmut
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A Prospective Study of Individuals at Risk of Multiple Sclerosis Informs the Design of Primary Prevention Studies

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective In multiple sclerosis, the optimal time for deploying a therapeutic intervention is before the central nervous system is damaged; given the success of trials treating the earliest stage of MS, the radiologically isolated syndrome, developing primary prevention strategies is an important next challenge.
Amy W. Laitinen, Ceren Tozlu, Tina Roostaei, Fatoumata Diallo, Kaho Onomichi, Jiyeon Son, Zongqi Xia, Philip L. De Jager   +7 more
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Conflicting Tasks and Moral Hazard: Theory and Experimental Evidence [PDF]

We study a multi-task principal-agent problem in which tasks can be in direct conflict with each other. In theory, it is difficult to induce a single agent to exert efforts in two conflicting tasks, because effort in one task decreases the success ...
David J. Kusterer, Eva I. Hoppe
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