Abstract This paper examines the incentive effect of a discontinuous and nonlinear compensation scheme, using the transaction data provided by two North American auto dealerships. Under the nonlinear scheme, a salesperson’s expected daily commission revenue critically depends on his position in the pay schedule on the day. We find that a measure of varying incentive intensity has a positive eff...

Abstract Remittances have long been an important source of revenue for many people in the Republic Niger. In order to fight poverty, young choose migrate. 2019, a total 293 million U.S. dollars was sent by migrants their relatives Niger; that is 3% Niger Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The objective this study analyze effects remittances on economic growth and significance its contribution improv...

Understanding how the gambling industry generates revenue is of paramount importance. Questions about whether higher volumes expenditure are concentrated among a small proportion gamblers, and this varies by problematic status, underpin policy debate consumer protection. Analyzing data from two timepoints (T0; T2) British longitudinal study regular sports bettors, we explored both for total (gr...

This paper analyses the problem of sub-national revenue mobilization in Peru and proposes several policy reforms to improve collection performance while maintaining a sound revenue structure. We analyze the current revenues of regional and municipal governments and identify the main priorities of reform. Among the most important problems are the acute inequalities and inefficiencies associated ...

Greenhouse gas emissions have serious impacts on the natural environment. Therefore, the restrictions imposed on carbon emission force enterprises to take carbon emission into consideration when making production decisions. In this paper, in the context of allowing emission trading and investment of emission reduction technology, models were presented for a two-stage supply chain to analyze the...

We study channel coordination policies for products subject to midlife price declines during their short product life cycles. Using a two-period supply chain model consisting of one supplier and one retailer, we identify policies and/or conditions under which the supply chain can be coordinated and a win-win situation can be guaranteed. We also provide algorithms to determine the win-win policy...

This paper evaluates the joint impact of exclusive channels and revenue sharing on suppliers and retailers in a hybrid duopoly common retailer and exclusive channel model. The model bridges the gap in the literature on hybrid multichannel supply chains with bilateral complementary products and services with/without revenue sharing. The analysis indicates that, without revenue sharing, the suppl...

35 National Tax Journal Vol. LXI, No. 1 March 2008 Abstract The proliferation of residential private governments, in the form of homeowners’ associations, to deliver public services coincided with a period in which cities faced signifi cant property tax limitations. Using panel data from California in the era of Proposition 13, I test whether cities that were more tax constrained experienced hi...