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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Economic decision-making"”.
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Essays on Economic Decision Making
… focuses on exploring individual and strategic decision problems in Economics. I take a different approach in each chapter to capture various aspects of decision problems. An overview of this dissertation is provided in Chapter 1. Chapter 2 studies an individual's decision making in …
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Social and economic decision-making in Urbach-Wiethe Disease
… basolateral amygdala as indispensable for social decision-making. This finding has not yet been translated to humans, and has even been partially contradicted by previous findings in patients with amygdala lesions that show generous economic investments in strangers. This thesis therefore aimed to …
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The Behavioral and Neural Bases of Social Economic Decision-Making
Social economic decision-making considers the well-being and emotions of others. Unlike traditional economics which routinely assumes that individuals care only about their own outcomes, behavioral economics and neuroeconomics offer research strategies which help us explore our social motivations. …
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Three Essays on the Effect of Overconfidence on Economic Decision Making
… to explore the effects of overconfidence on economic decision making. In Chapter 1 I provide experimental evidence of the effects of alcohol on overconfidence and several other important tasks. I also explore the relationship between overconfidence and the behavior in the other tasks. The …
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Accounting for well capacity in the economic decision making of groundwater users
… around the world present the need for accurate economic models of groundwater use which couple traditional producer theory with hydrological science. We present a static optimization problem of individual producer rents, given groundwater as a variable input to production. In a break with …
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Reinforcement Learning and Economic Decision-making for Nutrient Rewards in Rhesus Monkeys
Value is a fundamental concept for economic decision-making and reinforcement learning. In these frameworks, the decision-makers choose by assigning values to objects and learn by updating object values with experience. However, it remains unclear how economic values derive from the intrinsic …
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Analytic Solutions to Some Stochastic, Adaptive, and Dual Optimal Control Problems for Economic Decision-Making
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Essays on Strategic Behavior and Economic Decision-Making: Evidence from Retirement Saving, Insurance, and Intergenerational Contexts
<p>This dissertation studies how individuals make economic decisions under information frictions, focusing on strategic behavior, behavioral responses to interventions, and the formation of economic preferences. Essay 1 examines whether economic behavior can be improved through short-term workplace …
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Evaluating the Role of Attention in Decision Making
… cognitive, and computational mechanisms of decision-making. However, the role of such processes is often not given much focus in decision-making research, especially for studies involving economic decision-making. Here, I present three studies that evaluated the role of attention during …
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SDEs and MFGs towards Machine Learning applications
… Learning methodologies applied to financial and economic decision-making processes.
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Interest income taxation and household saving behavior in less-developed economies: An empirical investigation
… in the sense of not seriously distorting economic decision-making by households and individuals.
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Estimating Auction Equilibria using Individual Evolutionary Learning
… and individual evolutionary learning in economic decision-making environments. Most importantly, I have adapted the library to estimate equilibria bidding functions in auctions. I show it produces highly accurate estimates across a large class of auction environments with known solutions. …
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Multiyear Cat Bonds and Investor Behavior
… risk comprises a growing social, political, and economic challenge of our time. Recent natural disasters have dramatized the need for supplemental insurance avenues, including long term insurance and multiyear cat bonds, which hedge against long term liability exposure. An empirical examination …
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The association between published accounting data and the behaviour of share prices
… is the provision of information useful for economic decision making.
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Revealed and Hidden Social Preferences
… by examining the impact of group identity on economic decision-making through Dictator Game and Lying Dictator Game experiments conducted in different cultural contexts. The research compares students from Chapman University (USA) and Wuhan University (China), with each participant informed of …
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Strengthening the Integration of Traditional Knowledge in Environmental Impact Assessment: An Analysis of Inuit Place Names near Steensby Inlet, NU
… and concerns are reflected in environmental and economic decision-making. In the eastern Arctic, the Nunavut Impact Review Board has recognized the importance of both scientific and traditional knowledge to this task. Inuit place names are a form of traditional knowledge that has rarely been …
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Identification, signaling and exploitation of social preferences: An experimental analysis
… preference types and pro-sociality on economic decision-making. In Chapter 1, the identification of social preference types using distributive choices is discussed. A thorough review shows that the two main approaches - parametric and non-parametric- have been productively used but …
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The Development of Capital Market in Thailand
For a variety of reasons, the economic pace of nations throughout the world has proceeded at a sharply varying rate. It is characteristic of the lagging nations, broadly described as developing countries, to want to accelerate their rates of growth as rapidly as possible. It has been expedient at …
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