We consider the problem of outcomes based budget allocations to prevention programs across different states to achieve greater geographical healthcare equity. We use Diabetes Prevention and Control Programs (DPCP) by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as an example. We present a robust weighted sum model for outcome adjusted budget allocation. An inverse linear programming tech...

 Simulation and optimization are two arguably most used operations research (OR) tools. Optimization intends to choose the best element from some set of available alternatives. Stochastic simulation is a powerful modeling and software tool for analyzing modern complex systems. This capability complements the inherent limitation of traditional optimization, so the combining use of simulation an...

We study fiscal spending by supranational unions, where participation is voluntary and countries bargain over contributions to and the allocation of a central budget. We establish and explore the link between the budget’s allocation and nations’ contributions that occurs since bargaining power is endogenous, and a country’s outside option during budget negotiations is to withdraw its contributi...

We analyze the relationship between senate malapportionment and the allocation of the US federal budget to the states during the period 1978-2002. A substantial literature originating from the influential paper by Atlas et al. (1995) finds that small and overrepresented states get significantly larger shares of federal funds. We show that these studies suffer from fundamental identification pro...

In this paper, we consider a dynamic model in which a firm’s headquarters (HQ) allocates the limited capital budget into two divisions which are privately informed of their investment opportunities, having an overstating incentive. The vertical communication between HQ and each division is based on a contract, while the horizontal communication between divisions is collusive to overstate. The m...

We analyze the relationship between senate malapportionment and the allocation of the US federal budget to the states during the period 1978-2002. A substantial literature originating from the influential paper by Atlas et al. (1995) finds that small and overrepresented states get significantly larger shares of federal funds. We show that these studies suffer from fundamental identification pro...

Social exposure is one of the factors affecting the diffusion dynamics for Electric Vehicles (EV) uptake. It could be increased by advertising, but the effects of it change among different groups of people and residential zones. This study develops an optimization model that determines efficient allocation of advertising budget to zones. This model includes a dynamic market diffusion model (Str...

A common real-life problem is to fairly allocate a number of indivisible objects and a fixed amount of money among a group of agents. Fairness requires that each agent weakly prefers his consumption bundle to any other agent’s bundle. In this context, fairness is incompatible with budget balance and nonmanipulability (Green and Laffont 1979). Our approach here is to weaken or abandon nonmanipul...