Traffic regulation in public and private wireless LANs face a number of significant challenges, particularly in commercial networks where there is a need for efficient regulation of bursty transactional applications, support for bandwidth reservation services while inhibiting bandwidth hogging by mobile devices, and incentivizing user cooperation. In this paper, we take a new approach to solvin...

As a consequence of the flexibility mechanisms incorporated in the Kyoto Protocol, incentive-based policies such as emissions trading and the clean development mechanism are being widely discussed in the context of greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement. This paper examines various issues related to incentive-based approaches for India. Some of the specific questions it addresses are: does India stand ...

We examine the impact of incentive regulation—price regulation and earnings sharing regulation—on retail service quality in the U.S. telecommunications industry between 1991 and 2002. We find that incentive regulation is associated with significantly higher service quality on several dimensions (e.g., more rapid installation of new telephone service, fewer trouble reports, and increased custome...

Teachers who were regarded as the subject of educational reform, the function of their positivity directly influence the development of school and the improvement of educational quality. Therefore, incentive strategy to teachers is an effective way to promoting their development. This paper analyzed the problems exist in the process of incentive strategy to teachers and put forwards some sugges...

We consider mechanism design problems in which agents perceive Knightian uncertainty. Uncertainty is formalized using incomplete preferences, as in Bewley (1986). Without completeness, individual decision making depends on a set of beliefs, and an action is preferred to another if and only if it has larger expected utility for all beliefs in this set. We consider two natural notions of incentiv...