We collaborate with a Swedish retail chain to conduct a field experiment in which we change the sales force compensation scheme from a monthly to a daily quota plan. This intervention, along with a control group that did not encounter a change in compensation structure, allows us to analyze the effect of quota frequency on sales force performance. Over a given time frame (i.e., a month), we fin...

We propose that White men derive a psychological benefit from believing that affirmative action is a quota-based policy. Three studies provide evidence that quota beliefs protect White men’s self-esteem by boosting their sense of self-competence. Study 1 found a positive relationship between quota beliefs and self-esteem that was mediated by self-perceived competence. In Studies 2 and 3, the be...

Geoffrey Grimmett Abstra t. The problem of how to allocate to states the seats in the US House of Representatives is the most studied instance of what is termed the ‘apportionment problem’. We propose a new method of apportionment which is stochastic, which meets the quota condition, and which is fair in the sense of expectations. Two sources of systematic unfairness are identified, firstly the...

Analyses of trade quotas typically assume that the quota restricts the flow of some nondurable good. Many real-world quotas, however, restrict the stock of durable imports. We consider the cases where (1) anyone is free to export against such quotas and where (2) only those allocated portions of the total quota are free to export against such quotas. Recent econometric investigations of such qu...

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...