Focusing on rules for the allocation of litigation costs, the American rule induces a higher level of optimism, as compared to the British rule.
With the Republican Party rules on proportional allocation of delegates along with so many candidates in the race, it will be a long uphill slog for any candidate to get the requisite number of delegates and prevent a brokered convention.
BME associations follow exactly the same rules on housing allocation as today's mainstream associations; there are no racial qualifications for tenancies.
We obtain a characterization of incentive compatibility based on the Mirrlees representation of the indirect utility and a monotonicity condition on the allocation rule, which pin down the range of possible payoffs as a function of the allocation rule.
We study experimentally the effects of cost structure and prize allocation rules on the performance of rent-seeking contests.
The "mechanism" of mechanism design is a specialized game in which participants submit messages to a central point and a rule determines the allocation of resources based on those messages.
Another focus for the proposed rules would be the allocation of stock by banks to favored corporate clients.
Who decides on the allocation of funds?
This article reports the results of an empirical study of the effect of the new prudent investor rule on asset allocation by institutional trustees.
In the short term, the commission, which is due to rule on countries' allocation plans next month, should slash them.
