Managerial costs for one-shot decentralized information processing

Review of Economic Design

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 329-345

  Meagher, Kieron ^a,b   Van Zandt, Timothy ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decentralization; Organizations; Parallel processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 54649084713     PISSN: 14344742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100580050019     Document Type: Article

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