Search Results - subject:"Resource allocation."

Comparative Advantage in (Non-)Routine Production

Archanskaia, Liza; Van Biesebroeck, Johannes; Willmann, … - 2020

We illustrate a new source of comparative advantage that is generated by countries' diﬀerent ability to adjust to technological change. Our model introduces substitution of workers in codiﬁable (routine) tasks with more efﬁcient machines, a process extensively documented in the labor...

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On Reward Sharing in Blockchain Mining Pools

Can, Burak; Hougaard, Jens Leth; Pourpouneh, Mohsen - 2020

This paper proposes a conceptual framework for the analysis of reward sharing schemes in mining pools, such as those associated with Bitcoin. The framework is centered around the reported shares in a pool instead of agents and results in two new fairness criteria, absolute and relative...

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Headquarter resource allocation strategies and subsidiary competitive or cooperative behavior: Achieving a fit for value creation

Dellestrand, Henrik; Kappen, Philip; Lindahl, Olof - In: Journal of Organization Design 9 (2020) 1, pp. 1-16

allocation, we argue that the ability of headquarters to create value through resource allocation to subsidiaries within the … multinational corporation is contingent on the complementary fit between the resource allocation strategy and the dominant behavior … generated by headquarter resource allocation that includes multiple layers of hierarchy. As a corollary, we extend and …

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Welfare Maximizing Allocation Without Transfers

Dogan, Mustafa; Uyanik, Metin - 2020

This paper studies welfare maximizing allocation of indivisible objects to ex-ante identical agents in the absence of monetary transfers. The agents, each with a unit demand, share a common ranking of the objects, and are privately informed about their own valuations. The structure of the...

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Profit Allocation, Decision Sequence and Compliance Aspects of Coordinating Contracts : A Retrospect

Lu, Meng; Sethi, Suresh; Xie, Yangyang; Yan, Houmin - 2020

Coordinating contracts have been extensively researched in supply chain management. In this retrospect, we systematically review the profit allocation, decision sequence, and compliance aspects of these contracts. In addition to the existing concepts in the literature, we propose the notion of...

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Structural Estimation of Kidney Transplant Candidates' Quality of Life Scores : Improving National Kidney Allocation Policy Under Endogenous Patient Choice and Geographical Sharing

Ata, Baris; Friedewald, John; Randa, A. Cem - 2020

We develop a data-driven framework for assessing the impact of changes to the deceased-donor kidney allocation policy taking into account the transplant candidates' (endogenous) organ acceptance behavior and sharing among different locations under UNOS' geographically tiered allocation...

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Fairness through the Lens of Cooperative Game Theory : An Experimental Approach

De Clippel, Geoffroy; Rozen, Kareen - 2020

We experimentally investigate how impartial observers allocate money to agents whose complementarity and substitutability determine the surplus each group can achieve. Analyzing the data through the lens of axioms and solutions from cooperative-game theory, a one-parameter model (mixing equal...

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The Misallocation of Climate Research Funding

Overland, Indra; Sovacool, Benjamin K. - 2020

The window of opportunity for mitigating climate change is narrow. Limiting global warming to 1.5 °C will require rapid and deep alteration of attitudes, norms, incentives, and politics. Some of the key climate-change and energy transition puzzles are therefore in the realm of the social...

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Heterogeneity, Measurement Error, and Misallocation : Evidence from African Agriculture

Gollin, Douglas; Udry, Christopher - 2020

Standard measures of productivity display enormous dispersion across farms in Africa. Crop yields and input intensities appear to vary greatly, seemingly in conflict with a model of efficient allocation across farms. In this paper, we present a theoretical framework for distinguishing between...

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Social Stability and Resource Allocation within Business Groups

Zhu, Haikun - 2020

Exploiting data on intra-group transactions and unexpected shocks to regional stability in China, I show that the business groups of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) use internal funds to address social unrest. The government allocates more funds to SOEs in areas affected by social unrest, which...

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