An explicit formulation of D- and DS-optimal designs for the binary logistic regression model in several variables, without interaction between the variables, is presented. The proof of the optimality of the designs is “traditional” in the sense that it invokes the Equivalence Theorem, and...

Previous work on moral-hazard problems has shown that, under certain conditions, bonus contracts create optimal individual incentives for risk-neutral workers. In our paper we demonstrate that, if a firm employs at least two workers, it may further benefit from combining worker compensation via...

A standard tournament contract specifies only tournament prizes. If agents’ performance is measured on a cardinal scale, the principal can complement the tournament contract by a gap which defines the minimum distance by which the best performing agent must beat the second best to receive the...

Recently, various approximate design problems for low-degree trigonometric regression models on a partial circle have been solved. In this paper we consider approximate and exact optimal design problems for first-order trigonometric regression models without intercept on a partial circle. We...