A principal requires a manager for production. He can use an internal manager, or contracts with an external manger. In each case, the manager obtains experience benefits from production. When the principal uses an internal manager, both parties share cost information. When the principal contracts with an external manager, only the external manager acquires cost information. The internal manage...

We consider a social cost minimization problem with equality and inequality constraints in which a central coordinator allocates infinitely divisible goods to self-interested N firms under information asymmetry. We consider the VickreyClarke-Groves (VCG) mechanism and study its connection to an alternative mechanism based on market clearing-price. Under the considered set up, we show that the V...

Abstract_______________________________________________________________________ The literature concerning the U.S. federal deficit and its implications for the federal government's intertemporal budget constraint seems to have reached a tentative conclusion that starting with the Reagan administration the U.S. federal government has violated its intertemporal budget constraint. Recently the pop...

This thesis collects three interrelated chapters of empirical work, which are connected to each other in the sense of testing UK fiscal policy. The first chapter investigates whether the UK fiscal policy was consistent with an intertemporal budget constraint for a long period of time from 1955 to 2006. I find evidence of sustainability with three structural breaks, respectively occurring in the...

Several practical instances of network design and location theory problems require the network to satisfy multiple constraints. In this paper, we study a graph-theoretic problem that aims to simultaneously address a network design task and a location-theoretic constraint. The Budget Constrained Connected Median Problem is the following: We are given an undirected graph G = (V;E) with two differ...

In this paper, we investigate simultaneous wireless power transfer and secure multicasting via cooperative decode-and-forward (DF) relays in the presence of multiple energy receivers and eavesdroppers. Two scenarios are considered under a total power budget: maximizing the minimum harvested energy among the energy receivers under a multicast secrecy rate constraint; and maximizing the multicast...

PracTools is an R package with functions that compute sample sizes for various types of finite population sampling designs when totals or means are estimated. One-, two-, and three-stage designs are covered as well as allocations for stratified sampling and probability proportional to size sampling. Sample allocations can be computed that minimize the variance of an estimator subject to a budge...

in this research the activity of 75 producers, 55 wholesalers and 55 retailers, citrus market of jahrom county was investigated. the results indicated that margin of wholesale, retail and total margin of citrus in this county was 1461.1, 1480.3, and 2941.4 rs respectively. share of producer from marginal price was estimated to be 57.9 percent and share of wholesaler was more than retailer. in t...

We investigate computational and mechanism design aspects of optimal scarce resource allocation, where the primary rationing mechanism is through waiting times. Specifically we consider the problem of allocating medical treatments to a population of patients. Each patient has demand for exactly one unit of treatment, and can choose to be treated in one of k hospitals, H1, . . . ,Hk. Different h...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) measures the efficiency score of a set homogeneous decision-making units (DMUs) based on observed input and output. Considering input-oriented, inverse DEA models find required level for producing given amount production in current level. This article proposes new form model considering income (for planning) budget finance budgeting) constraints. In contrast with...