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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Signaling Game"”.
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A Stackelberg signaling game for co-operative rendezvous in uncertain environments in a search-and-rescue context
… between the rescuers and the rescuee. Natural signaling, grounded in rationality, can play a decisive role in achieving rapid and effective mitigation in such rescue scenarios. In this work, we model a particular rescue scenario as a modified asymmetric rendezvous game where limited …
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Probabilistic semantics for vagueness
… being generated via reinforcement learning in a signaling game.
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Real Options and Game Theoretic Valuation, Financing and Tendering for Investments on Build -Operate -Transfer Projects
Built upon modern option pricing theory and game theory, this thesis presents a quantitative BOT model that can dynamically evaluate the value of a BOT investment from the perspectives of the developer and government, and determine the BOT investment's developing decisions. By incorporating with …
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Democracy, Crises, and Misconceptions
… of political parties. Therefore, we analyze a signaling game between a governmental party and voters. We find that extreme reform proposals are particularly credible, and therefore might be the appropriate device for successful reform.
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Two Essays on Electricity Markets: Entry Into Hydroelectric Generation Industry and the Political Cycle of Regulated Prices
… (1988) to model the regulator's problem as a signaling game where politicians set the regulated price trying to maximize electoral support by signaling to voters a pro-consumer behavior. Political incentives and welfare constraints interact in the model yielding an equilibrium in which the …
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Signaling, Extended Deterrence, and Regional Conflict Escalation: A Game Theory Model
… understand this theoretical puzzle, I set up a signaling game model which implements an extended deterrence situation. I solved the game for perfect Bayesian equilibrium and got seven equilibria, five of them pooling and two separating. Further examination of these equilibria revealed that only …
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Essays on Financial Economics
… firms' capital raising decisions in a two-stage signaling game. In the model, firms can issue debt or equity to finance sequentially arriving investment projects. Management is assumed to have an initial information advantage over investors. However, when a firm's decision in the first stage can …
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Essays on Applied Game Theory and Public Economics
… spending. Using a multi-stage extensive form game, I investigate how electoral competition interacts with diversions and policy distortions. My result shows that a higher level of electoral competition helps mitigate policy distortions but prompts the parties to divert more funds. Perfectly …
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Parties, Committees, and Rules in the U.S. House of Representatives
… possible explanation to this puzzle via a simple signaling game. In equilibrium, I show that the majority party has an incentive to include the minority party delegation on the committee. By allowing the minority to make a public speech on the uncertainty, the majority leadership can constrain the …
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Building Strategic AI Agents for Human-centric Multi-agent Systems
… while improving performance in the benchmark game of no-press Diplomacy. Then, we develop a procedure for modeling populations of agents that communicate with humans using natural language. Our sample-efficient multitask training scheme for latent language policies (LLPs) improves the reward …
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Essays on Communication in Game Theory
… consists of essays on communication in game theory. The first chapter develops a model of dynamic persuasion. A sender has a fixed number of pieces of hard evidence that contain information about the quality of his proposal, each of which is either favorable or unfavorable. The sender …
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Essays on signaling games under ambiguity
This dissertation studies two-person signaling games where the players are assumed to be Choquet expected utility maximizers a la Schmeidler (1989). The sender sends an ambiguous message to the receiver who updates his non-additive belief according to a f-Bayesian updating rule of Gilboa and …