An Online Game for Teaching Newsvendor Contracting
Posted on Mon 20 August 2018 in Simulation • Tagged with games
Tullock Contests with Heterogeneous Outside Options
Posted on Sun 05 November 2017 in Innovation, NPD • Tagged with contests, tournaments
I have been talking to some fellow academics for quite some time now about writing a paper that looks at contests and competition between contests. While that idea is still germinating, it did spawn an interesting thought about how to model stochastic participation in contests, one possibility I have documented …
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If you cannot win the game, change the rules
Posted on Wed 01 November 2017 in Innovation, NPD • Tagged with contests, tournaments
One of my wonderful coauthors mistaking me for someone who watches sports, shared some “sports” sayings with me. One of these was the profound sounding but somewhat meaningless (at least to me) saying about changing the rules if you can’t win. Anyway, given that I am interested in economic …
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Buildup of Ideas
Posted on Sun 08 January 2017 in Research • Tagged with Measurement, R
There is much research that suggests that people dont often get a sudden inspiration, but that they gradually buildup ideas over time. I was interested in one specific piece of this, how can we measure buildup or lack there of. Of course, it is easy to eyeball ideas or to …
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