We consider a bandit problem faced by a team of two heterogeneous players. The team is hierarchical in that one (the principal) retains the exclusive right to terminate the project while the other (the agent) focuses strictly on implementing the project assigned to him. As a key departure, we...

One of the subjects that has focused the empirical work of many educational economists has been the public funding of privately run schools. In this paper we use a quasiexperimental approach in order to evaluate the effect of attending a Spanish publicly subsidised private school on some of the...

"This book addresses the coordination of operations planning of supply chains involves simplifying complex decision problems into a hierarchy of mutually inter-dependent decision problems. It also provides insights and support executives concerned with the management of expertise, knowledge,...

"This book addresses the coordination of operations planning of supply chains involves simplifying complex decision problems into a hierarchy of mutually inter-dependent decision problems. It also provides insights and support executives concerned with the management of expertise, knowledge,...