Manna, Manfredi M.A. La - School of Economics and Finance, University of St. Andrews - 2006
n tasks, each of which has a probability of success p.
The paper establishes under what conditions it may be
profitable to engage in parallel multi‐tasking, i … with other resources that succeed with probability pβ and that cost wβ . I
call this arrangement parallel multi‐tasking. In order not to bias the analysis in …
favour of parallel multi‐tasking, we constrain β not to exceed unity, i.e., the
additional parallel route to …