Maastricht School of Management

Interval Scheduling Games with Color-Based Concurrent Jobs

We consider a game theoretic variant of an interval scheduling problem. Every job is associated with a length, a weight, and a color. Each player controls all the jobs of a specific color, and needs to decide on a processing interval for each of its jobs. Jobs of the same color c...

How High is the Bar? Pension Fund Benchmark Choices in Real Assets

Abstract This paper examines how defined benefit pension funds select and revise performance benchmarks for real assets, including private real estate, listed REITs, infrastructure, commodities, and natural resources. Using data from CEM Benchmarking, we document substantial hete...

The Dutch cardiomyopathy registry (DCR); rationale and registry design

BACKGROUND: Cardiomyopathies are important causes of arrhythmias, sudden cardiac death, and heart failure. With accumulating knowledge in clinical, genetic, and molecular phenotyping, the number of distinct disease entities is growing. There is a need for broad, inclusive, high-q...

Mind the gap: The role of workers’ automation perceptions for the automation training gap

Technological advancements in automation are transforming job tasks and skill demands, raising concerns about the adaptability of the workforce. While reskilling and upskilling are widely recommended for workers in high-risk occupations, empirical research consistently finds an “...

Imitation of regional location choices for foreign investments: The role of home-country collectivism

Firms investing in a foreign country tend to imitate their compatriots’ most common regional location choices. We argue that this tendency is stronger among firms from more collectivistic cultures, since such firms are more inclined to view prior compatriot investors in the targe...