We investigate the implications of welfare lower bounds together with queue-effi ciency and strategyproofness in the context of the queueing problem. As a consequence, we provide alternative characterizations of the k-pivotal mechanisms (Mitra and Mutuswami [13]). First, we introduce the k-welfare lower bound, which ensures that no agent is worse off than the case where she is assigned to the k...

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We study a two-sided matching model with a finite number of agents and with transferable utility: agents on both sides of the market are privately informed about multi-dimensional attributes that determine the match value of each pair. Utility functions are assumed to be quasi-linear, and monetary transfers among agents are feasible. We ask the following question: what divisions of surplus amon...

Do firms have the right incentives to innovate in the presence of spillovers? This paper proposes an explicit channel of spillovers through labor flows within a framework of competitive search. Firms can choose to innovate or to imitate by hiring a worker from a firm that has already innovated. We show that with long-term wage contracts information spillovers caused by worker turnover are effi ...

Wearable technology forms a fashion in today’s Emerging Embedded technology. Measuring clinical Parameters like Heart rate, Oxygen Saturation level using Smart Watches, Smart glasses from Photo – Plethysmogram (PPG) has become a new research topic in industry as well as academia in the area of Signal Processing and Embedded Environment. Extracting reasonable PPG signals to derive accurate Clini...

We agree with Angela Kashuba and colleagues (June 30, p 2409) that it is essential to develop new methods for measuring adherence to preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention in clinical trials. However, another important issue also needs to be addressed. Specifi cally, how can adherence data from clinical trials be interpreted and used to predict the success of PrEP in reducing transmi...

Sin que medien influencias literarias dc uno sobre otro, Leopoldo Alas y Theodor Fontane conciben de modo singularmente parecido el drama la vida las protagonistas femeninas eligen como prototipo mujer sociedad nobiliaria su tiempo en sus novelas Effi Briest (1894) La Regenta (1884-85) respectivamente. Tanto otro coinciden presentar a heroínas seres frustrados desarrollo moral han interiorizado...