Hanson’s market scoring rules allow us to design a prediction market that still gives useful information even if we have an illiquid market with a limited number of budget-constrained agents. Each agent can “move” the current price of a market towards their prediction. While this movement still occurs in multi-outcome or multidimensional markets we show that no market-scoring rule, under reason...

Hanson’s market scoring rules allow us to design a prediction market that still gives useful information even if we have an illiquid market with a limited number of budget-constrained agents. Each agent can “move” the current price of a market towards their prediction. While this movement still occurs in multi-outcome or multidimensional markets we show that no market-scoring rule, under reason...

We also thank Kunal Sadhu for his assistance with the collection of macroeconomic statistics; and Lucien Van Elsen for his help in data analysis. John Grant read previous versions and gave valuable comments, but the usual disclaimer applies. Summary Several studies have demonstrated a generally positive association between market share (MS) and business profitability (BP), and that this relatio...

BACKGROUND Patient self-testing (PST) and/or patient self-management (PSM) might provide better coagulation care than monitoring at specialized anticoagulation centers. Yet, it remains an underused strategy in the Netherlands. METHODS Budget-impact analyses of current and new market-share scenarios of PST and/or PSM compared with monitoring at specialized centers were performed for a national...

Running and Programming Linux Introduction Linux shares very little in common with Microsoft Windows, the operating system that the vast majority of people have been taught to use or program. This report aims to provide the background information required to begin programming under Linux, with an emphasis on interfacing; to point the reader in the direction of further help that is available; as...

an indirect tarns-log production function was employed to estimate the demand functions for such inputs as: fertilizer, seed, pesticide, water recourse and machinery as subject to budget constraint and while using data related to cotton producers in the three provinces of north khorasan, khorasane razavi, and south khorasan in 2007-8. lagrange coefficients with relation to cotton producers in t...

We consider the problem of efficient mechanism design for multilateral trading of multiple goods with independent private types for players and incomplete information among them. The problem is partly motivated by an efficient resource allocation problem in communication networks where there are both buyers and sellers. In such a setting, ex post budget balance and individual rationality are ke...

Over the last two decades Indonesia has experienced a significant decline in fertility rates and substantial increases in the level of education of women. Despite this development female labor force participation rates have remained roughly constant throughout this period. This paper explores the causes for the seeming unresponsiveness of female labor supply to changes in fertility. The empiric...

In this paper, a quaternion firefly algorithm is utilized to solve a multi-row facility layout design problem with the objective of minimizing the total cost of transportation. A quaternion firefly algorithm takes the motion of the firefly as a quaternion one. Consequently, the solution space is explored more accurately and the answers are of higher quality. That is, the answers are considerabl...