The environmental benefits from Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes can often be enhanced if private land managers are induced to enrol in a spatially coordinated manner. One incentive mechanism which has been proposed achieve such spatial coordination is the agglomeration bonus, two-part payment scheme offers pecuniary (financial) reward decisions that lead greater of enrolled land. H...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The sheer volume of electrical and electronic waste (e-waste) has presently been generated in Vietnam, posing a growing concern regarding its impact can have on the environment and human health. Therefore, the need for developing policies and regulations towards the environmentally sound management of e-waste is becoming crucial. Although the municipa...

Advance payment systems represent a pricing innovation, in which companies predict customers’ future consumption for the following year and then bill a series of monthly, uniform advance payments. Any difference between predicted and actual consumption gets settled at the end of the year with a refund or extra payment. Companies thus gain earlier access to funds and lower risk of customer defau...

The regional discrepancies of physician supply have been a growing concern in Japan. To find out how hospitals are responding in terms of physician payment (by monthly salaries and additional benefits), we conducted a survey of acute care hospitals in Yamagata, Japan. We asked about the salary and additional benefits of full-time physicians and the structural and functional characteristics of h...

The research aims to investigate the impact of theoretical drivers, facilitators, and barriers on intention adopt m-payment. It further examines m-payment usage behavior. Partial least squares structural equation modeling was used based a suitable sample 408 participants in Karachi, Pakistan. findings contribute greater understanding factors that influence customer decision-making and, as resul...

Consider the problem of allocating objects to agents and how much they should pay. Each agent has a preference relation over pairs of a set of objects and a payment. Preferences are not necessarily quasi-linear. Non-quasi-linear preferences describe environments where payments influence agents’ abilities to utilize objects. This paper is to investigate the possibility of designing efficient and...

Crowdsourcing marketplaces link large populations of workers to an even larger number of tasks. Thus, it is necessary to have mechanisms for matching workers with interesting and suitable tasks. Earlier work has addressed the problem of finding optimal workers for a given set of tasks. However, workers also have preferences and will stay with a platform only if it gives them interesting tasks. ...