Search Results - subject:"Resource allocation."

Resource allocation procedures for unknown sales response functions with additive disturbances

Gahler, Daniel; Hruschka, Harald - In: Journal of Business Economics 92 (2021) 6, pp. 997-1034

We develop a modified exploration–exploitation algorithm which allocates a fixed resource (e.g., a fixed budget) to several units with the objective to attain maximum sales. This algorithm does not require knowledge of the form and the parameters of sales response functions and is able to cope...

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Benchmarking New Zealand's frontier firms

Zheng, Guanyu; Duy, Hoang Minh; Pacheco, Gail - 2021

and capital resource allocation are compared between New Zealand and the other small advanced economies. Results show that …

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Prioritarianism in Education

Ooghe, Erwin - 2021

compare it to utilitarians and Rawlsians. I finish with a brief discussion of several plausible extensions of the resource … allocation problem. …

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Gender differences in intra-household financial decision-making: An application of coarsened exact matching

Booysen, Frederik; Guvuriro, Sevias - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 14 (2021) 10, pp. 1-11

Most studies that explore collective models of intra-household decision-making use economic outcomes such as human capital, earnings, assets, and relative income shares as proxies of the relative distribution of bargaining power. These studies, however, fail to incorporate important measures of...

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Children in left-behind migrant households: Education and gender equality

Saleemi, Sundus - 2021

This paper analyses the effect of migration of men from rural areas in Pakistan on children in households "left behind" by the migrants. Left-behind households' expenditure on children's education and the gendered distribution of these expenditures are two outcomes of main interest. First, it is...

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Understanding inequality within households

Almås, Ingvild; Ringdal, Charlotte; Hoem Sjursen, Ingrid - 2021

To describe and understand the economic inequality in a given so- ciety, it is necessary to understand intra-household inequality. House- holds can hide important inequalities, but can also be essential units for redistribution in society. This paper gives an overview of within- household...

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Health Endowments, Schooling Allocation in the Family, and Longevity: Evidence from US Twins

Savelyev, Peter A.; Ward, Benjamin C.; Krueger, Robert F.; … - 2021

We analyze data from the Minnesota Twin Registry (MTR), combined with the Socioeconomic Survey of Twins (SST), and new mortality data, and contribute to two bodies of literature. First, we demonstrate a beneficial causal effect of education on health and longevity in contrast to other twin-based...

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Resource Allocation in the Brain and the Capital Asset Pricing Model

Siddiqi, Hammad; Murphy, Austin - 2021

, which are (i) optimal resource allocation in the brain and (ii) mean-variance optimization. This changes the classical CAPM … size effects while also allowing an otherwise flat security market line (SML) to turn steep depending on the resource … allocation decisions in the brain. CAPM deviations are expected to be stronger intraday in the enriched framework. The model also …

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Risk-Taking, Capital Allocation and Optimal Monetary Policy

David, Joel Michael; Zeke, David - 2021

total factor productivity (TFP) is endogenous and depends on the resource allocation. The model uncovers a novel tradeoff …

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Transferability of Migration Licenses and the Distribution of Potential Rents

Bivins, Laura L.; Krishna, Kala - 2021

This paper compares the effects of migration restrictions using licenses which are freely traded in a competitive labor market to those that occur when licenses are allocated to firms who are not permitted to trade them. There is reason to expect that a policy of making licenses non-transferable...

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