Final Pay Pension Schemes—Deferred Pay or Company Provided Benefit?

Delegates Direct Csea to Beher Pension Pay

CSEA County Executive Committee chairman Arthur Bolton and CSEA president Theodore C. Wenzl, from l e f t , greet Milton Levine, chairman of the Sullivan County Board of Supervisors. Mr. LeDine was on hand to officially welcome delegates to CSEA's 63rd annual convention at the Concord Hotel in Sullivan County. Senate Majority Leader Warren Anderson, l e f t , is shown with CSEA's top two electe...

Pay or Play

We introduce the class of pay or play games, which captures scenarios in which each decision maker is faced with a choice between two actions: one with a fixed payoff and another with a payoff dependent on others’ selected actions. This is, arguably, the simplest setting that models selection among certain and uncertain outcomes in a multi-agent system. We study the properties of equilibria in ...

Cybersecurity Today and Tomorrow: Pay Now or Pay Later

To Pay or Not to Pay? Is that the Question?

Genetic tests are an increasingly important tool for diagnosis and disease management. Correctly diagnosing a disease or determining which medication or dose to prescribe is essential to managing health and disease. Diagnostic data drive more than 70% of healthcare decision making but reimbursement from both public and private payers has emerged as the new crucible with increasing uncertainties...

Pay Enough or Don ’ T Pay at All

Economists usually assume that monetary incentives improve performance, and psychologists claim that the opposite may happen. We present and discuss a set of experiments designed to test these contrasting claims. We found that the effect of monetary compensation on performance was not monotonic. In the treatments in which money was offered, a larger amount yielded a higher performance. However,...