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.

In response to public concerns about the consequences of research misconduct, academic institutions have become increasingly cognizant of the need to implement comprehensive, effective training in the responsible conduct of research (RCR) for faculty, staff, students, and external collaborators. The ability to meet this imperative is challenging as universities confront declining financial reso...

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...