Disentangling moral hazard and adverse selection

H Castro-Pires, H Chade, J Swinkels - American economic review, 2024 - aeaweb.org
While many real-world principal-agent problems have both moral hazard and adverse
selection, existing tools largely analyze only one at a time. Do the insights from the separate …

Reliability optimization of multi-state systems with two performance sharing groups

L Gu, G Wang, Y Zhou, R Peng - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2024 - Elsevier
Increasing research efforts have been devoted to the reliability analysis of multi-state
systems (MSSs) with different performance sharing mechanisms. This paper investigates the …

Cumulative information generating function and generalized Gini functions

M Capaldo, A Di Crescenzo, A Meoli - Metrika, 2024 - Springer
We introduce and study the cumulative information generating function, which provides a
unifying mathematical tool suitable to deal with classical and fractional entropies based on …

A unit half-logistic geometric distribution and its application in insurance

AT Ramadan, AH Tolba, BS El-Desouky - Axioms, 2022 - mdpi.com
A new one parameter distribution recently was proposed for modelling lifetime data called
half logistic-geometric (HLG) distribution. In this paper, appropriate transformation is …

Reliability optimization of parallel-series and series-parallel systems with statistically dependent components

J Zhang, R Yan, J Wang - Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2022 - Elsevier
In this manuscript, we adopt a copula-based hierarchical dependent approach to analyze
the redundancy allocation policy and statistical dependence effect on the reliability of two …

Endowment, technology choice, and industrial upgrading

JY Lin, Z Liu, B Zhang - Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper sets up a dynamic infinite-industry model to discuss the impact of factor
endowments on technology choice and industrial upgrading. The model shows that at any …

Reliability analysis of randomly weighted k-out-of-n systems with heterogeneous components

Y Zhang - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2021 - Elsevier
The k-out-of-n systems with components having random weights have wide applications in
reliability engineering. In this paper, we implement the study on reliability analysis of k-out-of …

Optimal allocation of multi-state performance sharing systems with multiple common buses

L Gu, G Wang, Y Zhou - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2024 - Elsevier
The reliability of performance sharing systems (PSSs) has received increasing research
attention due to their practical importance. Early research mainly focused on the PSSs with …

A note on the multiplicative gamma process

D Durante - Statistics & Probability Letters, 2017 - Elsevier
Adaptive dimensionality reduction in high-dimensional problems is a key topic in statistics.
The multiplicative gamma process takes a relevant step in this direction, but improved …

A decision theoretic framework for reliability-based optimal wind turbine selection

S Eryilmaz, J Navarro - Reliability engineering & system safety, 2022 - Elsevier
The problem of choosing the optimal wind turbine for a specific site is of special importance
in the design process of wind farm. Manifestly, the selection of the optimal wind turbine …