Healthcare downstream referral programs, where patients are transferred to a community hospital after surgical treatment in a tertiary hospital for rehabilitation treatment, have been widely advocated. However, no appropriate payment scheme aligns incentives to promote the program. This paper...

We study mechanisms for environments in which only some of the agents are directly connected to a mechanism designer and the other agents can participate in a mechanism only through the connected agents' referrals. In such environments, the mechanism designer and agents may have different...

We study mechanisms for environments in which only some of the agents are directly connected to a mechanism designer and the other agents can participate in a mechanism only through the connected agents' referrals. In such environments, the mechanism designer and agents may have different...