Pacific Economic Bulletin Volume 21 Number 2 2006 © Asia Pacific Press This article assesses the magnitude of expected financial gains and the nature of incentives that a performance payment based contractual system may offer in a segmented sugar industry such as Fiji’s. A performance payment system (PPS), such as the Atherton system, could give all industry stakeholders incentives to improve p...

While the supported e-payment methods of online shops are different from the applied e-payment methods of online consumers, a B2C e-payment mismatch problem occurs and severely affects the online sales. This paper proposes a new dynamic account payment (DAP) method to resolve the mismatch problem. The main idea of DAP is that consumer can request a temporary e-payment account, acceptable to the...

mobile commerce is whatever electronic transfer or transaction via a mobile modem through a mobile net in which the true value or advance payment is done for goods, services or information. a mobile payment system should be beneficial for all related persons. for a payment system to be a successful system, end-user, seller, exporter and operators should see a additional value in it. end-user pr...

This study analyzes the trade-off relationship between layoffs and wage cuts. If the introduction of a performance-based payment system stimulates workers’ pecuniarymotivated minds, their morale can be damaged more severely by wage cuts than prior to the introduction thereof. Utilizing this idea, we demonstrate theoretically that the more heavily wages are based on performance, the more firms, ...

Freedman and Eraser's (1966) suggestion that self-percept may affect the likelihood that individuals will act on an attitude was investigated. The probability of subjects' complying with Experimenter 2's request to distribute anti-air-pollution leaflets was assessed following Experimenter 1's manipulation of high or low payment ($1.50 or $10) and feedback to subjects indicating they (a) had a "...

This article describes the results of a simulation analysis of a payment model for specialty oncology services that is being developed for possible testing by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). CMS asked MITRE and RAND to conduct simulation analyses to preview some of the possible impacts of the payment model and to inform desi...