television viewing of sports events is estimated to be 77 billion hours per year.2 One might add to this several hundreds of millions of hours spent in discussion at the water cooler. Designing an optimal contest is both a matter of significant financial concern for the organizers, participating individuals, and teams, and a matter of consuming personal interest for millions of fans. Not surpri...

In this paper, I consider the lessons recent academic research and historical experiences with monetary targeting and inflation targeting offer for the design of monetary policy regimes. The practical experiences with both monetary and inflation targeting suggest that successful policies have incorporated a great deal of flexibility. In principle, both monetary targeting and inflation targeting...

The significant features of Tukey’s control chart include characteristics such as: easy setup, use of single observation to monitor process, and suitability to monitor destructive testing processes. The control limit width and sampling interval should be determined before Tukey’s control chart can be used. In this study, Duncan’s cost function is modified to construct an economic design model o...

This thesis consists of three essays on economic design and coalition formation. The first chapter studies the st ability of many-to-one matching, such as matching between students and colleges or interns and hospitals. Complementarities and peer effects are inherent in many such matching situations. The chapter provides the first sufficient condition for stability that may be used to study mat...

Acceptance control charts are effective tools tomonitor capable processes in which the fraction of the produced nonconforming items is very low. In these charts, some controlled changes in the process mean are allowed, and the production of a specified number of defectives is tolerated. Designing these acceptance control charts by considering the cost of sampling, detecting, and investigating o...

Many telecom operators nowadays are gradually increasing their bandwidth offers, by either shortening the copper lengths to the user (e.g. to introduce VDSL) or by reducing the shared service areas for HFC (e.g. to adopt DOCSIS 2.0/3.0). This policy brings the fibre closer to the user, and it is one of the strategies taken by BH Telecom Sarajevo. However, there is an intention to perform the sw...

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