In this paper, we introduce a new role of quotas, e.g. labor market quotas: the attentional role. We study effect quota implementation on attention allocation strategy rationally inattentive (RI) manager. find that quotas induce attention: RI manager who is forced to fulfill quota, unlike an unrestricted manager, never rejects minority candidates without acquiring information about them. also d...

We assess the effects of board gender quota laws using a sample banks from 39 countries. document an increase in both stand-alone and systemic risk post-quota among that did not meet pre-reform; effect is stronger for countries with smaller pool women finance low equality. find propagation poor governance practices by overlapping female directors deterioration information environment post are l...

This paper proves the existence of non-empty cores for directed network problems with quotas and for those combinatorial allocation problems which permit only exclusive allocations.

abstract in the present study, agricultural sector import was forecasted by using the econometric and the ann methods. import data from 1971 to 2004 and 2004-2009 was used for forecasting, network training and testing forecast accuracy, respectively. the results shown that feed-forward neural network has much less error and better performance than the arima and the var methods. on the basis of ...

This paper addresses the problem of aggregate production planning (APP) for a multinational lingerie company in Hong Kong. The multi-site production planning problem considers the production loading plans among manufacturing factories subject to certain restrictions, such as production import/export quotas imposed by regulatory requirements of different nations, the use of manufacturing factori...