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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"Economic agents"”.
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Three Essays on Economic Agents' Incentives and Decision Making
… of three essays on theoretical analysis of economic agents' decision making and incentives. Chapter 1 gives an outline of the subjects to be examined in the subsequent chapters and shows their conclusions in brief. Chapter 2 explores the decision problem of a superordinate (a principal) …
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Essays In Adaptive Learning And Mean-Square Stability In Regime Switching Models
… </p> <p>In the second chapter, I analyze if economic agents could have learned the policy decisions of the Plaza and Louvre accords. New techniques in Markov switching Adaptive Learning models (MSAL), shows that economic agents would not have learned the rational expectations outcomes of …
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Women speaking in and for institutions: a rhetorical history of the politics of respectability in Black Chicago, 1919 - 1939
… this dissertation analyzes how Black women -- as economic agents and women of faith -- used rhetoric within institutions to advocate and uplift their enclaved communities. Specifically, my dissertation explores how Black women used the discourse of labor unions and the Black Church to promote …
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The timing of constraints and the existence of efficient incentive compatible mechanisms
Agents who have private information may misrepresent it, to manipulate a system of rules in their favor. Loss in efficiency can be an unfortunate consequence of this strategic behavior. A common problem in mechanism design concerns the selection of monetary transfers among economic agents to …
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Probabilistic risk analysis of restructured electric power systems : implications for reliability analysis and policies
… that responds to the behavior of decentralized economic agents. Using the example of restructured and partially deregulated electric power systems, it argues that existing engineering-based reliability tools are insufficient to evaluate the reliability of restructured power systems. This …
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Uncertainty and Inequality: The Case of Northeast Brazil
… variables which cause inequalities within a socioeconomic system among its economic agents and among its several regions. Second, it develops a model for the purpose of analyzing inequalities. Third, it applies the model to interpret the past and present economic situation of Northeast Brazil. …
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Essays on Learning and Stability in Asymmetric Information Economies
… of asymmetric information economies where economic agents learn more information from past observations. Agents are bounded rational in the sense that they optimize within a small error. Information is revealed over time by the realizations of equilibrium prices and allocations, which show …
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Time, Uncertainty, and Conflict: Three Essays on Economic Dynamics
… essay studies the interaction of a group of economic agents whose wealth cannot be completely insured, so that bankruptcy can occur. The stochastic behavior of the wealth is described by a diffusion process whose behavior depends on the actions of all agents. Each player should select a …
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Examining "The Adam Smith Problem": Individuals, Society, and Value
… from perceived inconsistencies between Smith's economic work, The Wealth of Nations, and his moral theory, the Theory of Moral Sentiments. I argue that far from being inconsistent with Smith's economic theory, his moral theory serves as a necessary foundation. I suggest that, because he takes …
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Information Asymmetries, Transparency, and Monetary Policy
… seem to play an important role in monetary economics. We consider three forms of information transmission which can be used to alleviate these information asymmetries. First, if information is verifiable or the publication of information is in the central bank's interest, it is possible for …
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Agricultural tenancy and contracts: an economic analysis of the strange farmer system in the Gambia
… rural production relations; ie. the relations of economic agents to resources of production in terms of their use and ownership rights and the relations between economic agents as principals (ie. landlords) and agents (ie. workers; strange farmers). Strange farmers, the migrant laborers who come …
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A dynamic analysis of the crop productivity impacts of soil erosion: an application to the Piedmont area of Virginia
… soil management problem faced by individual economic agents as well as society. The focus of this study, however, was on the theoretical formulation and estimation of partial equilibrium dynamic economic models directed toward optimizing the private use of the soil resource. In particular, …
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ΕΛΕΓΧΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΟΥΔΕΤΕΡΟΤΗΤΟΣ ΤΟΥ ΧΡΗΜΑΤΟΣ Σ' ΕΝΑ ΜΑΚΡΟΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΚΟ ΥΠΟΔΕΙΓΜΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗΣ ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΑΣ ΥΠΟ ΚΑΘΕΣΤΩΣ ΟΡΘΟΛΟΓΙΚΩΝ ΠΡΟΒΛΕΨΕΩΝ: 1954-1980
… RATE TO PLAY IN THE SHORT-RUN, UNLESS IF THE ECONOMIC AGENTS ARE ABLE TO OFFSET THE EFFECTS OF ANTICIPATED (AND ACTUAL) CHANGES IN MONETARY POLICY.
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Exchange Rate Volatility and Bilateral Trade Flows: An Analysis of U.S. Demand for Certain Steel Products from Canada and Mexico
… changes in the spot exchange rate, sectoral economic growth, and the price of goods being traded all exert more significant influence on trade levels than exchange rate volatility. However, the model results also tend to indicate that as exchange rate volatility increases, the well-developed …
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Essays in Regional Economics
Economic agents are tied to locations. To overcome distance, they face frictions in trade, mobility, information, or communication. This thesis addresses how such spatial frictions shape market adjustments in three distinct microeconomic settings. Chapter 1 examines a temporary service disruption …
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The effects of labour policies in the Piedmont Region of Italy on equity in the labour market: reflections on women in Labour
… approaches these questions. It is thus held that agents (in this instance, women) are constrained by structures (labour policy framework and institutionalised labour practices) to achieve specific social goals. And further: that the apparent lack of power on the part of agents requires …
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Capital Flows and Trade in an Integrated World
… thesis is essentially a work on International Economics. As such it is no exception in that it consists of different chapters, all of which address different issues in the field. The first two chapters are theoretical in nature, whereas the third is empirical. The last chapter provides a …
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Rational inattention in control of Markov chains
… on information-constrained decision-making by economic agents. In the average-cost optimal control framework, the general model introduced in this paper reduces to a variant of the linear-programming representation of the average-cost optimal control problem, subject to an additional mutual …
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An exploration of the experiences of Zimbabwean women informal cross-border traders at the Zimbabwean/South African BeitBridge border post
Much research on economically-enforced migration between Zimbabwe and South Africa locates women as partners of men, rather than as economic agents in their own terms. Research on cross-border trade, however, has theorized that gender dynamics may empower women traders as they learn to negotiate …
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