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  2. Incentive compatibility - Wikipedia

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    The stronger degree is dominant-strategy incentive-compatibility (DSIC). [ 1 ] : 415 It means that truth-telling is a weakly- dominant strategy , i.e. you fare best or at least not worse by being truthful, regardless of what the others do.

  3. Compensation (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, compensation is a strategy whereby one covers up, consciously or unconsciously, weaknesses, frustrations, desires, or feelings of inadequacy or incompetence in one life area through the gratification or (drive towards) excellence in another area. Compensation can cover up either real or imagined deficiencies and personal or ...

  4. Jim Simons - Wikipedia

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    In 2014, Simons reportedly earned US$1.2 billion, including a share of his firm's management and performance fees, cash compensation and stock and option awards. [41] According to Forbes magazine, Simons had a net worth of $30 billion in 2023, making him the 25th-richest person on the Forbes 400 list. [42]

  5. Compensation and benefits - Wikipedia

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    Compensation and benefits refer to remuneration to employees from employers. Which is the payments or rewards provided to an individual for the work that has been completed. Compensation is the direct monetary payment received for work performed, commonly known as wages. This is the compensation that employees earn for their work or ...

  6. Reward management - Wikipedia

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    Reward management is concerned with the formulation and implementation of strategies and policies that aim to reward people fairly, equitably and consistently in accordance with their value to the organization. [1] Reward management consists of analysing and controlling employee remuneration, compensation and all of the other benefits for the ...

  7. Solving chess - Wikipedia

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    A variant first described by Claude Shannon provides an argument about the game-theoretic value of chess: he proposes allowing the move of “pass”. In this variant, it is provable with a strategy stealing argument that the first player has at least a draw thus: if the first player has a winning move in the initial position, let him play it, else pass.

  8. Martingale (probability theory) - Wikipedia

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    The strategy had the gambler double their bet after every loss so that the first win would recover all previous losses plus win a profit equal to the original stake. As the gambler's wealth and available time jointly approach infinity, their probability of eventually flipping heads approaches 1, which makes the martingale betting strategy seem ...

  9. Merit pay - Wikipedia

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    Despite an official pay freeze, federal employee compensation continued to rise—owing in part to the merit pay ("pay-for-performance" or "employee bonus") system, but also due to promotions and to automatic scheduled increases in "completing waiting periods used in grade- and step-type pay systems."