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A Multi-Stage Stochastic Programming Approach to Epidemic Resource Allocation with Equity Considerations

Yin, Xuecheng; Buyuktahtakin, I. Esra - 2021

Existing compartmental models in epidemiology are limited in terms of optimizing the resource allocation to control an …-stage stochastic programming compartmental model, which integrates the uncertain disease progression and resource allocation to control … determine the optimal and fair resource-allocation strategies. Our model balances the proportion of infections over all regions …

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Asset Allocation and Risk Allocation : Can Social Security Improve its Future Solvency Problem by Investing in Private Securities?

MaCurdy, Thomas E.; Shoven, John B. - 2021

This paper examines the economics of investing the central trust fund of Social Security in private securities. We note that switching from a policy of having the trust fund invest solely in special issue Treasury bonds to one where some of the portfolio holds common stocks amounts to an asset...

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The Role of the Abandonment Option in Strategic Resource Allocation : A Selected Review of the Literature

Ribeiro, Joao Adelino; Costa-Filho, João - 2021

We review the most relevant contributions to the abandonment option since the late 1960's. We begin by approaching the contributions to the literature before the emergence of the real options approach to capital investment decisions, and after, under a consistent real options approach,...

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Mispricing, Misallocation, and Corporate Investment

Dreyer, Christian - 2021

This study investigates the effect of stock market overvaluation of non-peer firms on firm investment measured by capital expenditures. To test this effect, Stambaugh et al.’s (2015) misvaluation measure and Text-Based Network Industry Classification (TNIC) codes are used. The results indicate...

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Strategy-proof and envyfree random assignment

Basteck, Christian - 2021

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Normative properties for object allocation problems : characterizations and trade-offs

Klaus, Bettina; Ehlers, Lars H. - 2021

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Section 95 and Schedule 12 : Carbon Emissions Tax; Section 96: Charge for Allocating Allowances under Emissions Reduction Trading Scheme

Pirlot, Alice - 2021

This short note first briefly describes the main features of the carbon emissions tax. Secondly, it highlights that the carbon emissions tax would mimic many design features of an ETS, which blurs the line between carbon taxation and emission trading. Thirdly, it discusses how such a carbon...

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Parochial Interests and the Centralized Provision of Local Public Goods : Evidence from Congressional Voting on Transportation Projects

Knight, Brian G. - 2021

Local public goods financed from a national tax base provide concentrated benefits to receipient jurisdictions but disperse costs, creating incentives for legislators to increase own-district spending but to restrain aggregate spending due to the associated tax costs. While these common pool...

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A Vaccine Auction

Pancs, Romans - 2021

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Corruption in University Admissions and the Administrative Allocation of Scarce Goods

Files, L. Burke; Meiners, Roger E.; Morriss, Andrew P. - 2021

The Varsity Blues investigation uncovered a seamy side of university admissions. Multiple wealthy parents were indicted for securing their children’s admission to selective institutions through bribery. Despite the publicity the indictments and guilty pleas received, and the public...

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