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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Choice Under Uncertainty"”.
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Representing plans under uncertainty: A logic of time, chance, and action
… these languages lack the ability to represent uncertainty, as well as lacking any kind of link to a theory of rational behavior. Decision Theory provides a normative model of choice under uncertainty such that recommended choices can be said to be rational under a well-defined notion of …
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Essays in Behavioural Economics & Applied Econometrics
… demonstrated that individuals perform poorly in understanding how past outcomes relate to future outcomes in experimental settings. This thesis studies the ability of individual decision makers to incorporate information about previous successes to predict future performance in naturalistic …
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A Closer Look at Classical Measurement, an Algorithm for Deliberation in Rodents, and a Conjecture on Intertemporal Choice
… a sense that is made precise, to one’s initial uncertainty in the ready-state of the apparatus—a quantity that relates to the temperature of the apparatus. Part II of this thesis develops a model of the computations taking place in the deliberative decision-making system of rodents, during …
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Theoretical aspects of long-term evaluation in environmental economics
… of long-term evaluation with a focus on time and uncertainty structure. Motivated along the lines of global warming, the analysis renders contributions to the fields of environmental economics, decision theory, the economics of sustainability and cost benefit analysis. The thesis is structured in …