The research domain Industry Studies and Public Policy (IS&PP) seeks to further our
understanding of industrial practices and managerial challenges by explicitly considering …

Purpose For the past 20 years, Latin American countries have gone from being a low-cost
region to significant players in the world economy, with five of its countries ranked among …

Compiled by the Partnership for Child Development at Imperial College London, the World
Food Programme, the World Bank and the African Union's New Partnership for Africa's …

Market design seeks to translate economic theory and analysis into practical solutions to
real-world problems. By redesigning both the rules that guide market transactions and the …

Problem definition: Lawmakers have begun to introduce “fair schedule” legislations that
require employers to provide shift workers with more predictable and consistent work …

The logistics companies should continuously invent novel solutions to oppose fierce
competition. Introducing occasional drivers in the context of freight transportation can …

In this paper, we empirically examine the impact of performance feedback on the outcome of
crowdsourcing contests. We develop a dynamic structural model to capture the economic …

We survey the uses of combinatorial auctions that have been deployed in practice, giving
emphasis to their key representational and economic aspects. In addition, we discuss …

The main advantage of a procurement combinatorial auction (CA) is that it allows suppliers
to express cost synergies through package bids. However, bidders can also strategically …

The first spectrum auctions generally assigned the chosen number of licences of
predetermined size to the highest bidders, but auctions now allow a greater choice of …