Selection by quotas is an important policy measure in the affirmative action tool box. Despite quotas being effective for achieving certain numerical representations, they can come with unwanted side effects, for example in the form of uncooperative behavior in the group created by the quota. In the laboratory, we investigate the extent to which preferential selection in the form of an unrepres...

Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) servers are frequently deployed with quota (size) limitations. This document discusses the properties and minor behaviors needed for clients to interoperate with quota (size) implementations on WebDAV repositories. Korver & Dusseault Standards Track [Page 1]

In the future, networks will be increasingly Quality-of-Service (QoS) oriented, and admission control will play a vital role in ensuring that relevant QoS requirements of flows are satisfactorily met. Recent research viewing the network as a chargeable resource, associating a pricing mechanism for different types of data, is also becoming increasingly prevalent. In this paper, we introduce the ...

Despite the increasingly positive reviews of individual transferable quotas (ITQs), few studies have considered how quota leasing activities can reduce the economic benefits to society and to fishermen operating under the ITQ fisheries system. This analysis reveals negative economic impacts of ITQs previously overlooked by examining the extent of quota leasing and the relationship between the c...

A strategy to convert quotas to tariffs is to auction the quota rights and use the realized auction prices as guides to setting tariffs. In the 1980s, New Zealand employed auctions to allocate quota licenses. We analyze the relationship between tariff-equivalents and auction prices for auctions with resale. Using panel data from New Zealand’s quota license auctions, we estimate the expected val...

Title of thesis: ECONOMIC MODEL FOR VEHICLE OWNERSHIP QUOTA POLICY ANALYSIS Longyuan Du, Master of Science, 2012 Thesis directed by: Professor Lei Zhang Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Over the years, traffic congestion has become an ever more serious issue in many mega-regions worldwide, and has caused huge economic and environmental loss. Having witnessed big increase in the...

In this paper, two families of merging operators are considered: quota operators and Gmin operators. Quota operators rely on a simple idea: any possible world is viewed as a model of the result of the merging when it satisfies “sufficiently many” bases from the given profile (a multi-set of bases). Each interpretation of the “sufficiently many” gives rise to a specific operator. Each Gmin opera...

Between 2000 and 2012, ten African countries adopted candidate gender quota laws to improve women’s descriptive representation in national legislatures. The effect of these laws on the election of women has varied widely. This article examines the effect of a gender quota law on the election of women as well as the appointment of women to the cabinet in the Republic of Niger to better understan...

This paper extends the concept of a quota contract to account for discounting and for the possibility of infinitely many periods: a discounted quota fixes the number of expected discounted plays on each action. I first present a repeated principal-agent contracting environment in which menus of discounted quota contracts are optimal. I then recursively characterize the dynamics of discounted qu...