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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"Strategic Behavior"”.
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Strategic behavior in economic rivalry
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, 1981
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Strategic behavior in risky competitive settings
… cable TV show Storage Wars, finding that the behavior of most of its bidders is consistent with loss aversion. Thus, I document for the first time the presence of loss aversion in actual ascending auctions. In Chapter 2, I report the results of a (quasi) field experiment in the training …
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Essays on strategic behavior in government-designed markets
This thesis studies consumer behavior and strategic interactions between firms in markets that were actively designed by governments. In such settings, government intervention is frequent, firms are often constrained in their actions, and consumer behavior may depart from what is predicted by the …
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Cognitive foundations of strategic behavior : from games to revolutions
… main tools currently used in Economics to model strategic behavior. However, game theory has come under attack because of the strong assumptions it makes on people's behavior. Because of that, alternative models of bounded rationality, with more realistic assumptions, have been proposed. In the …
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Lack of commitment and strategic behavior : four essays in financial economics
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1990.
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Technological development, strategic behavior and government policy in information technology industries
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1989.
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Essays on Strategic Behavior and Economic Decision-Making: Evidence from Retirement Saving, Insurance, and Intergenerational Contexts
… 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 educational interventions. Using a randomized field …
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Four Essays on Strategic Behavior, Empathy and Gender Differences in Voluntary Provision of Public Goods and Responsible Consumption
The present work examines the topics of strategic behavior, empathy and gender differences in responsible consumption. In order to analyse such issues, we turned to the rapidly growing field of behaviour economics which represents a merger of a variety of different scientific disciplines (economics …
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Corporate Governance and Strategic Behavior: A Study of Acquisitions and CEO Compensation Practices of Publicly-Owned and Family-Controlled Firms in S&P 500
… premise manifests itself differently in the strategic behavior of family-controlled firms when compared to their nonfamily peers. In particular, for firms in the S&P 500, I evaluate the results of two important strategic policies; mergers and acquisitions, as well as CEO compensation …
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Feature-Based Choice and Similarity Perception in Normal-Form Games: An Experimental Research
In my thesis, I investigate how strategic behavior forms in the mind of the subjects and how is it possible to influence or manipulate it, without proposing modifications of the utility function, but referring to possible logical and psychological processes. I start from the assumption that agents …
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Terrorism: Ideology and Strategy
… thesis will look at how ideological belief and strategic rationale can effect the strategic behavior of a terrorist group. The thesis will mainly concentrate on determining if ideology and strategy each have a different influence on the organization and operations of a terrorist group. Fatah and …
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Design And Analysis Of Sponsored Search Mechanisms
… auctions is hard are the need to cope with strategic behavior of the agents, who will constantly adjust their bids seeking more items at lower prices, and the fact that the environment is highly dynamic and uncertain. Many market designs which became de-facto industrial standards allow …
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Operator Strategies Under Varying Conditions of Workload
… attempted to operationally define and measure strategic behavior in a complex multiple task environment. The Multi-Attribute Task battery was developed to simulate various aspects of flight and consisted of an auditory communication task, monitoring tasks, a tracking task, a resource management …
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The timing of constraints and the existence of efficient incentive compatible mechanisms
… 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 promote incentive compatibility and efficiency. My research focuses on studying certain aspects of the effect of …
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Managing Local Sustainability: A Game Theoretic Analysis of Natural Resource Conservation
… system model is used to simulate the impacts of strategic behavior in managing lands in a local commons, on and around Ft. Bragg, North Carolina. The system model is also used in optimal control and game theoretic exercises. It provides optimal control and game theoretic solutions for short time …
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Ambient Air Pollution and the Allocation of Environmental Enforcement Effort
… for noncompliance generate incentives for strategic behavior by state enforcement agencies: laxness in enforcement of polluting plants with higher potential to generate spillovers in the former and precautionary behavior which leads to non-monotonic enforcement in the latter. These findings …
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An attention-based view on environmental exigencies and opportunity valuation
… developing a comprehensive perspective of strategic behavior. ABV suggests strategic behavior is an outcome of a decision maker's rationalization of the firm's operating environment. The attention-based view of the firm suggests that noticed change in a firm's operating environment leads to …
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Strategic interactions in modern elections and markets
This thesis examines strategic interactions in democratic and economic institutions against the backdrop of technological advancements which fuel new strategic capabilities. I investigate four interconnected domains: manipulation of redistricting fairness through strategic campaigning (termed here …
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An Experimental Investigation of 2-Person Bargaining
… values is manipulated, and its effect on the strategic behavior of the players is studied. The cause and the control of disagreement are discussed in the general context of conflict of interest.
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