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Im Fahrzeugbau und im Verkehrswesen hat die praktische Umsetzung von Ubiquitous Computing Technologien einen hohen Grad erreicht. Unter diesem Begriff ist die Ausstattung unterschiedlicher Gegenst?nde mit Prozessoren und Sensoren zu verstehen, welche in der Lage sind, Daten ?ber ihren eigenen...
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We present a model in which a principal delegates the choice of project to an agent with different preferences. The principal determines the set of projects from which the agent may choose. The principal can verify the characteristics of the project chosen by the agent, but does not know which...
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This paper reconsiders the applicability of a recently posed theoretical result concerning the optimality of not providing interim performance evaluations to the agent when implementing a given amount of total effort. The model used by Lizzeri, Meyers and Persico (2002) under the assumption of a...
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This paper introduces a model of sweet talk in which a seller may acquire verifiable information and selectively disclose it to a buyer to negotiate a deal. We start by analyzing a model with common priors in which the seller generates information for two reasons: a trading motive and a profit...
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.By using developments in other human sciences, study opens the road leading to more realistic economic theory. …
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The contracting process is a crucial step in alliance development and its success. However, the existing literature reveals surprisingly little investigation into how organizational learning relates to the process of contract making. We therefore conducted an in-depth longitudinal study of the...
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Following Kreps (1979), we consider a decision maker with uncertain beliefs about her own future taste. This uncertainty leaves the decision maker with preference for flexibility: When choosing among menus containing alternatives for future choice, she weakly prefers larger menus. Existing...
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We present a model in which a principal delegates the choice of project to an agent with different preferences. The principal determines the set of projects from which the agent may choose. The principal can verify the characteristics of the project chosen by the agent, but does not know which...
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We model new experience goods in the context of dynamic mechanism design. These are goods for which an agent is unsure of her valuation but can learn it through consumption experience. We consider a dynamic environment with a single buyer and seller in which contracting occurs over T periods,...
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laws of market, such Say’s law, marginal value and interest rate theory, with the modern results of mathematical economics …, such as Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), game theory and behavioral economics. This principle is well known in classical …
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