Re: Projections and Media incentives

2004-11-03 Thread Jeffrey Rous
From CNN.com: Sen. John Kerry's campaign refused to concede early Wednesday, arguing that more than 250,000 provisional and absentee ballots remained to be counted in the key battleground state of Ohio. New Mexico will not release presidential election results until later Wednesday because

Re: Projections and Media incentives

2004-11-03 Thread Peter C. McCluskey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Friedman) writes: It's possible that I'm missing something--that there is some additional large source of uncertainty that could change the outcome, such as huge numbers of uncounted absentee ballots--but I don't think so. It looks to me as though CNN doesn't want to

Re: Incentives

2002-11-15 Thread john hull
they are saying that incentives don't matter. Cyril Morong __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com

Re: Incentives

2002-11-15 Thread Chris Rasch
of 128 studies, published in 1999 by Edward L. Deci, Richard Koestner, and Richard Ryan.) Is anyone on the list familiar with this literature? It sounds like they are saying that incentives don't matter. Cyril Morong

Incentives

2002-11-14 Thread CyrilMorong
stner, and Richard Ryan.)" Is anyone on the list familiar with this literature? It sounds like they are saying that incentives don't matter. Cyril Morong

Re: Micro Incentives -- real case question

2001-09-20 Thread david friedman
a simple case: Two individuals produce a product; it's total value is a function of inputs by each. Inputs are not measurable, but total value is. How do we give each the right incentives? Say that total value varies, on average, from 0 to $100, average $50. Each individual puts $25 into a kitty

Re: Micro Incentives -- real case question

2001-09-19 Thread William Dickens
My top management would like an incentive/accounting system which satisfies both teams, and gets both teams to cooperate more fully, and to use the advantages of each more fully. Is there any micro- / game-theory analysis on such internal business organization? Lots! But you would have to be