In many decentralized labor markets, job candidates are offered positions at very early stages in the hiring process. It has been argued that these early offers are an effect of the competition between employers for the best candidate. This work studies the timing of offers in a theoretical model based on the classical secretary problem. We consider a secretary problem with multiple employers a...

In 2016, December 1st—already an occasion to highlight the importance of health and human rights as World AIDS Day—took on new significance as a landmark in one of the highest-profile health and human rights cases of the twenty-first century. This was the day that United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon finally issued an apology on behalf of the organization for its role in causing th...

We study search behavior in a generalized “secretary problem” environment in which consumers search sequentially for the best alternative from a known and finite set of multi-attribute alternatives. In contrast to most previous studies, we make no distributional assumptions about the quality of the alternatives. Rather, at each stage of the search the consumers are only assumed to be able to ra...

Bruss (1987) has studied a continuous-time generalization of the so-called secretary problem, where options arise according to homogeneous Poisson processes with an unknown intensity of . In this note, the solution is extended to the case with random availability, that is, there exists a xed known probability p(0 < p 1) of availability, and the number of o ering chances allowed at most is m( 1)...

— We consider the secretary problem when the candidates are interviewed in batches of two at each stage and cost of interviewing is present. Closedform asymptotic resuïts are derived and are compared with case when there is no recall of the candidates. There is a small réduction in the expected loss when the interview cost is a power functiôn which is nonconstant.

This paper deals with Bruss’ odds problem with multiple stopping chances. A decision maker observes sequentially a sequence of independent 0/1 (failure/success) random variables with the objective to predict the last success correctly with multiple stopping chances. First, we give a nontrivial lower bound of the probability of win (obtaining the last success) for the problem with m-stoppings. N...

The article presents unique documents newly discovered in the Russian State Archive of Contemporary History (RGANI) and draws on them to reconstruct circumstances M. F. Frolenko (1848–1938), one oldest revolutionaries, former member “Narodnaya Volya” pensioner republican level, joining All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). It focuses Frolenko’s letter application addressed General Secretary C...