We study the impacts of incomplete information on centralized one-to-one matching markets. focus commonly used Deferred Acceptance mechanism (Gale and Shapley, 1962). show that many complete-information results are fragile to a small infusion uncertainty about others' preferences.

Despite a centralized political system, nation-wide legal reforms, and similar high housing demand pressures, property rights have evolved differently in Vietnam’s two leading cities Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City during the transition period. Using ethnographic fieldwork and a hedonic price model, the study shows that the two land and housing markets price tenure ambiguity differently. The differe...

Most organizations’ structures are top-down, especially those in Asia. Contrary to this inflexible organization setting, open business model has been widely discussed today with the hope to achieve innovation. How can highly centralized organizations innovate to harness collaborative intelligence? In this paper, we will introduce the case of the School of Management at National Central Universi...

The Boston mechanism is a centralized student assignment mechanism used in many school districts in the US. We investigate strategic behavior of students under the Boston mechanism when schools may have complex priority structures. We show that a stable matching is supported as an outcome of a Nash equilibrium under a general environment. We further show that any outcome of a Nash equilibrium i...

In this paper we compare the performance of fault localization schemes for communication networks. Our model assumes a number of management centers, each responsible for a logically autonomous part of the whole telecommunication network. We brieey present three different fault localization schemes: namely, \Centralized", \Decentralized" and \Distributed" fault localization, and, we compare thei...

Politicians and public managers continue to debate over whether to centralize or to decentralize departments, information systems and services. Shared service centers (SSCs) are gaining importance in public administration as a means to innovate, to reduce costs and to increase service levels. The SSC is a business model in which selected government functions are concentrated into a semi-autonom...

We compare two contest. Decentralized in which there are several independent contests with non overlapping contestants and Centralized in which all contestants …ght for a unique prize which is the sum of all prizes in the small contests. We study the relationship between payo¤s and e¤orts between these two contests. Keywords: Centralization, Decentralization, Contests JEL classi…cation: C72; D7...

This paper presents an approach of diagnosis for manufacturing system considered as Discrete Event Systems. It uses plant decomposition and a decentralized diagnosis structure to reduce the combinatory explosion found in centralized structures. The local behavior is extracted using decentralized plant modeling. It is from this behavior that possible faults are identified to construct abnormal b...

We examine current paradigms in parallel strategies for multivariate integration algorithms. These include various process structures (centralized vs. global) and work distribution strategies (static or dynamic) in synchronous or asynchronous implementations. The target algorithm classes are Monte Carlo, quasi-Monte Carlo and adaptive. Strengths and weaknesses of the resulting parallel algorith...