a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Material transfer agreements Payment for ecosystem services Non-monetary payment Moral satisfaction Probit with endogenous regressors This paper uses econometric analysis for understanding the determinants that affect the payment mechanism in material transfer agreements (MTAs). These contracts regulate the exchange of peculiar ecosystem services (genetic and bio...

This paper analyzes and compares the incentive properties of some common payment mechanisms for GPs, namely fee for service (FFS), capitation and fundholding. It focuses on gatekeeping GPs and it speci…cally recognizes GPs heterogeneity in both ability and altruism. It also allows inappropriate care by GPs to lead to more serious illnesses. The results are as follows. Capitation is the payment ...

In this paper, we propose a novel game-theoretical solution to the multi-path routing problem in wireless ad hoc networks comprising selfish nodes with hidden information and actions. By incorporating a suitable traffic allocation policy, the proposed mechanism results in Nash equilibria where each node honestly reveals its true cost, and forwarding subgame perfect equilibrium in which each nod...

In a community-based health insurance (CBHI) introduced in 2004 in Nouna health district, Burkina Faso, poor perceived quality of care by CBHI enrollees has been a key factor in observed high drop-out rates. The poor quality perceptions have been previously attributed to health worker dissatisfaction with the provider payment method used by the scheme and the resulting financial risk of health ...

The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) is a government owned and controlled corporation, established in 1995 and tasked to implement the National Health Insurance Program. Since its inception, PhilHealth has utilized the fee-for-service scheme for majority of inpatient benefits and case payment for selected, mostly outpatient benefits. In 2010, the country elected a new presid...

We study the efficiency of mechanisms for allocating a divisible resource. Given scalar signals submitted by all users, such a mechanism decides the fraction of the resource that each user will receive and a payment that will be collected from her. Users are self-interested and aim to maximize their utility (defined as their value for the resource fraction they receive minus their payment). Sta...

Physicians generally have been affected by significant changes in the patterns of medical practice evolving over the past several decades. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, also called ACA for short, impacts physician professional practice dramatically. Physicians are paid in the USA for their personal services. The payment system is highly variable in the private insuranc...

The objective of this study is to clarify the impact and mechanism transfer payment policies on resource dependence resource-depleted cities. Based panel data 113 prefecture-level resource-based cities from 2006 2017, uses a multi-period difference-in-differences model conduct an empirical results are as follows: Firstly, policy can reduce Secondly, there significant difference between eastern ...

In this paper, we propose a novel method of reward design for multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). One the main uses MARL is building cooperative policies between self-interested agents. We take inspiration from concept mechanism game theory to modify how agents are rewarded in algorithms. defined payment that reflects negative contribution other agents’ valuation same manner as Vickrey-C...