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The Incentive Virtues of Performance‐Based Trade Allowances and Loss Leading
The Journal of Industrial Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A retailer can boost demand for a manufacturer's product through non‐verifiable activities. Performance‐based trade allowances—rebates conditional on the retailer's successful sales efforts—help mitigate this moral hazard problem. In equilibrium, the wholesale contract includes a retail price set below cost, complemented by a rebate for ...
David Martimort, Jérôme Pouyet
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Optimal Staffing Policy in Commercial Banks Under Seasonal Demand Variation
IEEE Access, 2019 According to evidence from research and practice, the seasonal demand variation exists in the banking sector and significantly affects the commercial bank's operation.
Yuanqiao Chen +3 more
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Indoctrination and Democratic Legitimacy
Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT I argue that indoctrination undermines voter competence, and that widespread indoctrination thereby compromises the legitimacy of otherwise free and fair elections. Drawing on recent work in virtue epistemology, I provide an epistemic account of indoctrination according to which one is indoctrinated only if they hold an epistemically impactful
James H. McIntyre
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Involvement of corporations in international crimes and conflict atrocities, such as crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide, are neither isolated events nor uncommon. Importantly, corporate involvement in atrocity crimes is shaped by conditions in “zones of legal risk” (International Commission of Jurists), where gross human rights ...
Susanne Karstedt +4 more
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Political Naturalisation: Conscripting Transit Citizens in the United Arab Emirates
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since its formation, the United Arab Emirates has sought to construct a cohesive sense of national identity among its citizens, centred on a system of material and legal privileges granted exclusively to Emirati nationals. A pillar of its nation‐building project was the strict exclusion of foreigners from citizenship and the upholding of a ...
Mira Al Hussein
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Announcing Delay Information to Improve Service in a Call Center With Repeat Customers
IEEE Access, 2019 We study the model of predicting and announcing delays, including customer satisfaction and repeat the behavior. In a call center, anticipated delays affect the customer behaviors of balking and reneging; we characterize the level of satisfaction with ...
Miao Yu +3 more
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The Dynamics of Legitimacy in Integrative Bargaining Over Restructuring
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, Volume 65, Issue 4, Page 468-481, October 2026.ABSTRACT This paper demonstrates the dynamics of legitimacy in integrative bargaining over restructuring. Through a case study of SteelCo, we show that cognitive legitimacy is essential to the identification of integrative potential, which interacts with pragmatic and moral legitimacy as bargaining evolves.
Christopher J. McLachlan +2 more
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The Single Server Queue with Catastrophes and Geometric Reneging
, 2013 We consider the single server queue with catastrophes that occur according to a Poisson process. The catastrophes force all present customers to abandon the system and render the server inoperative.
Economou, Antonis, Dimou, Spiros
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The Australian Union Movement and the Politics of Full Employment, 1945–1976
Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 72, Issue 3, Page 406-420, September 2026.ABSTRACT This article argues that the Australian union movement played a crucial and often overlooked role in both the success and rapid decline of Australia's post‐war full employment framework. A particular focus is placed on the unions' response to the Fraser Liberal‐Country Party government's 1976 abandonment of post‐war full employment and the ...
Owen Bennett
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Strategic Reneging and Market Power in Sequential Markets
International audienceThis article investigates the incentives for firms with market power to manipulate markets by strategically reneging on forward commitments.
Billette de Villemeur, Etienne +1 more
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