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Essays in economic theory
This dissertation consists of two essays in Game Theory with Incomplete Information. The common theme of the essays pertains to the interpretation and origin of incomplete information in strategic situations. In the first essay, I study bargaining between a buyer and a seller when the buyer can …
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Essays in economic theory
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1983.
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Essays in economic theory.
… Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics.
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Essays in Economic Theory
… provide a simple axiomatization for the salience theory model within our general framework. This approach leads to a clear comparison to popular preexisting models, such as regret and reference dependence, and lets us single out the ordering property as the feature that brings salience theory …
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Essays in economic theory
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1981.
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Essays in economic theory.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics. Thesis. 1969. Ph.D.
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Essays on economic theory
These four essays concern the theory of games and its application to economic theory. The first two, closely linked, chapters are an investigation into the foundational question of the sensitivity of the predictions of game theory to higher-order beliefs. Impact of Higher-Order Uncertainty with …
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Essays on economic theory
The first chapter considers team incentive schemes that are robust to nonquantifiable uncertainty about the game played by the agents. A principal designs a contract for a team of agents, each taking an unobservable action that jointly determine a stochastic contractible outcome. The game is common …
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Essays in Economic Theory
In this study, I introduce the alternative-dependent focal Luce model (ADFLM), a random choice model generalizing the well-known Luce model (1959). In the ADFLM, focal alternatives are chosen more frequently relative to their utilities. I identify utilities, focal sets, and the magnitude of focal …
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Essays on Applied Economic Theory
<p>Essay 1: A Model of Dynamic Information Disclosure</p><p>We study a dynamic game in which a financial expert seeks to optimize the utilization of her private information either by information disclosure to an investor or by self-using. The investor may be aligned or biased: an aligned investor …
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Essays in applied economic theory
My dissertation studies the application of economic theory in various settings. Each chapter begins with a basic intuition or question, and then develops the most appropriate methods to investigate. The questions addressed and results generated are interesting both from a theoretical and practical …
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Two essays in economic theory.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics. Thesis. 1971. Ph.D.
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Three essays in economic theory
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1994.
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An Economic Theory of Leadership
This dissertation develops an economic theory of leadership based on assignment of information. Common theories assume that organizations exist to reduce transaction costs by replacing imperfect markets with incomplete long term contracts that give managers the power to command subordinates. This …
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An Economic Theory of Insurance Regulation
… in a state. The four theories tested are capture theory, minimization of conflict, maximization of political support, and agency theory. The analysis is based on private passenger automobile and homeowners insurance for the period 1973 through 1980. No theory adequately explains the results of …
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Essays on economic theory and applications.
… Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics.
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Towards an economic theory of income distribution.
… Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, 1971
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The Role of Technological Change in Economic Theory
… technological change needs to be explained by economic theory. The current academic literature is limited in providing theoretical account of the process of technological change. This thesis analyzes the economic theories of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, the neoclassical doctrine, and Joseph …
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Application of Economic Theory to Farm Record Analysis
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