Incentives for Providing Organs

Incentives for providing organs.

A Mechanism for Providing Innovation Incentives for Digital Goods

Digital goods can be reproduced costlessly. Thus a price of zero would be economically efficient in terms of eliminating deadweight loss. However, zero revenues would eliminate the economic incentives for creating such goods in the first place. We develop a novel mechanism which solves this dilemma by decoupling the price of digital goods from the payments to innovators while maintaining budget...

Providing Incentives in P2P Adaptive Streaming

Adaptive streaming, such as Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH), has been widely deployed to provide uninterrupted video streaming service to users with dynamic network conditions. In this report, we analytically study the potential of using P2P in conjunction with adaptive streaming. Our focus is on how to provide incentives in P2P adaptive streaming. We first study P2P adaptive stream...

Providing Managerial Incentives: Do Benchmarks Matter?∗

In this paper we revisit the question of whether relative performance-adjusted contracts provide portfolio managers with adequate incentives to gather information. We show that when portfolio managers are constrained in their ability to short-sell, relative performance-adjusted or linear ‘benchmarked’ contracts can provide incentives for gathering more precise information. We also provide condi...

Reducing Teacher Absence and Providing Incentives for Performance