The Minority Game is a model of interacting agents, who try to choose between two options every day, and those who are in the minority are winners. In an earlier paper, efficient stochastic strategies for this game was analyzed when the number of agents is 3, 5, 7. When the number of agents is large, the behaviour is qualitatively different, and as the discount parameter is varied, there is a s...

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This article examines possibilities to develop the service sector in a peripheral area by using virtual business incubations instead of traditional, location-based business incubations. The article introduces typical characteristics of physical business incubations and compares them with features that are possible to be provided also virtually. Then, using the tourism branch in Finnish Lapland ...

In this paper I develop a new approach—the reduced form approach—to studying the plaintiff’s win rate in one-shot litigation selection models. A reduced form requires three basic elements. First, a joint distribution of plaintiff’s and defendant’s beliefs concerning the probability that the plaintiff would win in the event a dispute were litigated. Second, a conditional win rate function that r...

Wer hätte vor drei Jahren gedacht, dass diese Diskussion in der Branche Alten- und Pflegeheime wieder geführt werden muss? Doch die Pandemie Auswirkungen des zunehmenden Personalmangels lassen Fragen rund um Aufwand-Nutzen-Relation Qualitätsmanagements erneut aufflammen. Was Qualitätsmanagement nun wirklich bringt welche Qualitätsarbeit für eine krisengeprägte hat, beleuchten Vertreterinnen Ver...