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Showing 1 to 20 of 149 for “"Payoffs"”.
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Exploring Payoffs and Beliefs in Game Theory
… games. Chapter 2 considers instances where the payoffs and the objectives may not be very clear to the players or the analyst. We develop a model for analyzing such games using a vector of reference utilities which are included in the definition of the game and assumed to be shared by all …
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The energetic and demographic payoffs of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) migration in Norway
Migratory behaviour has been hypothesized to be driven by fitness benefits arising from environmental factors that vary spatially at the landscape scale and temporally on an annual cycle. If migration has a fitness payoff, it follows that barriers to migration may have a measurable demographic …
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Voluntary disclosure of corporate strategy: determinants and outcomes. An empirical study into the risks and payoffs of communicating corporate strategy
… however little consensus on the risks and payoffs of disclosing vital information such as corporate strategy. To fill this gap, this study analyzes firm-specific determinants and organisational outcomes of voluntary disclosure of corporate strategy. Stakeholder theory and agency theory help …
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Voluntary disclosure of corporate strategy: determinants and outcomes. An empirical study into the risks and payoffs of communicating corporate strategy
… however little consensus on the risks and payoffs of disclosing vital information such as corporate strategy. To fill this gap, this study analyzes firm-specific determinants and organisational outcomes of voluntary disclosure of corporate strategy. Stakeholder theory and agency theory help …
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Absolute power and the development of cooperation
… individual is determining their outcomes or payoffs, cooperation is facilitated by equity in payoffs.
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Experimental evidence that group foragers can converge on predicted producer-scrounger equilibria
… to get resources from producers, and (ii) the payoffs received from the scrounger tactic must be highly negatively frequency-dependent such that they do better than producers when rare, but worse when common. This study provides the first experimental support for the use of the …
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ESSAYS ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS' AID
… by IFIs has a direct effect on the relative payoffs of domestic groups that results in a trade-off between increasing the range of parameter values for which reforms are adopted (and the payoffs from adoption), and lowering their payoffs if reforms are not adopted. Additionally, the …
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Mixed Monte Carlo in the foreign exchange market
… Carlo estimate of the discounted individual payoffs of FX derivatives is taken to arrive at the price, provided there does not exist a closed form solution for the price. One propagates the FX spot rate through time under risk-neutral dynamics to realise the before-mentioned payoffs. A …
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Studies of Bounded Rationality and Overconfidence in Dynamic Games
… equations to calculate the relative expected payoffs associated with conditions of overestimation bias, underestimation bias, and no bias and discern trends as a function of environmental features including game complexity and player skill levels. In the second set of analyses, we derive …
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Geometric Asian option: Geometric Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process
… average value options, are exotic options whose payoffs are dependent on the average prices of the underlying assets over the life of the options. The Asian options are very popular among the market participants when dealing with thinly traded commodities because the average property of the Asian …
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Essays on economic design and coalition formation
… there exists a core coalition structure if the payoffs are determined in the Tullock rent-seeking game or Nash bargaining. The core might be empty if the payoffs are determined by the Kalai-Smorodinsky or Shapley bargaining solutions.
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Industrialization under the WTO : the impact of asymmetric free trade agreements on middle-technology developing countries
… a framework where free trade agreements offer payoffs that countries have not been able to achieve through their WTO commitments. To evaluate these payoffs, I explore the mechanisms through which selected features of free trade agreements are translated into commercial outcomes. The central …
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Style anomalies on the Toronto Stock Exchange : a univariate, multivariate, style timing and portfolio sorting analysis
… in nature. Second, the predictability of style payoffs is examined through the analysis of autocorrelation and six style timing models. Strong positive autocorrelation at lower orders for the majority of style payoffs suggests that the ability to time payoffs is possible. The six month moving …
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Essays on liquidity and information
… from incomplete information about speculators' payoffs and find conditions such that unsuccessful partial defenses are possible equilibrium outcomes. There exist priors over the distribution of speculators' payoffs that can justify any possible partial defense strategy. With Normal uncertainty, …
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Mutualism benefits and the evolution of an interspecific sentry call in associations between Sociable Weavers and Fork-tailed Drongos
… from cooperation, are common in nature, but payoffs are dynamic and mutualists can incur costs as well as benefits from their association. Nevertheless, selection can favour the coevolution of behaviour that increases benefits. Such coevolution can potentially result in new mutualistic …
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Essays on dynamic games and reputations
… information that matters for their opponents' payoffs. I examine a repeated game between a patient informed player and a sequence of myopic uninformed players. The informed player privately observes a persistent state, and is either a strategic type who can flexibly choose his actions or is one …
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Incomplete information games of conflict and collective action
… games in which players receive stochastic payoffs only if both players take a ``stochastic-coordination action''. Players receive conditionally-independent noisy private signals about the normally distributed stochastic payoffs. With this structure, each player can exploit the information …
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Losses, gains, and asymmetry in the 1-shot prisoner's dilemma game
… symmetry, the number of negative (column) payoffs, the player’s relative position in asymmetric games, and social value orientation.
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On Individual Decision Making and Responsibility for Others
… resources and determine their own and others' payoffs, they decide accordingly to some well-defined distributional preferences. These, depending on the decisional setting and on individuals, are able to generate discrepancies between decisions that only affect the decision maker and choices …
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Risk-averse multi-armed bandits and game theory
… the expected cumulative reward and the expected payoffs in a game, respectively. In contrast, the rewards and the payoffs are often random variables whose expected values only capture a vague idea of the overall distribution. The focus of this dissertation is to study the fundamental limits of …
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