Chasing—and Catching—the Wild Goose

The Economics of Wild Goose Chases

Empirical evidence consistently finds that incentive pay is more frequent when authority is delegated to workers than when their superiors hold authority. We provide a model where incentive pay results in the abuse of authority by their superiors, and (under reasonable conditions) implies that (i) incentive pay is higher when an agent holds control rights than when her principal has authority, ...

Defining Quality of Life: A Wild-Goose Chase?

In the last decades there has been a growing interest towards the concept of “Quality of Life” (QoL), not only in the bio-medical field, but also in other areas, such as sociology, psychology, economics, philosophy, architecture, journalism, politics, environment, sports, recreation, advertisements. Nevertheless QoL does turn out to be an ambiguous and elusive concept – a precise, clear and sha...

Natural and Unnatural Selection in a Wild Goose

Poisoned GOOSE: Exploiting the GOOSE Protocol

This paper presents a vulnerability within the generic object oriented substation event (GOOSE) communication protocol. It describes an exploit of the vulnerability and proposes a number of attack variants. The attacks sends GOOSE frames containing higher status numbers to the receiving intelligent electronic device (IED). This prevents legitimate GOOSE frames from being processed and effective...

Is 'Statistix Inferens' Still the Geographical Name for a Wild Goose?

After the recent death of Peter Gould, I decided to look once again at his insightful paper`Is Statistix Inferens the Geographical Name for a Wild Goose?' (Gould 1970) ± hence the title for this guest editorial. For those readers who have not seen this article, Gould outlines a number of shortcomings of the common statistical practices of geographers of the day. Many of these relate to the assu...