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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Strategic Substitutes"”.
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Essays on the theory of lattice games with applications
… of games which allow for both players with strategic complements and players with strategic substitutes (unlike games with strategic complements, or games with strategic substitutes). Chapter 3 is an application which makes use of oligopoly techniques to introduce the notion of smuggling …
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Essays in Networks and Experimental Economics
… second and third chapters conduct experiments on strategic interactions in networks and on network formation, respectively. The fourth chapter examines the behaviour of Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT) in classic game experiments. The first chapter theoretically examines how agents' …
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Are relative performance measures in CEO incentive contracts used for risk reduction and/or strategic interaction
… RPE has the additional role of motivating strategic interaction between own-firm and peer-firm managers, as industrial organization theory predicts, and whether the two objectives of RPE are mutually exclusive. Using data from the U.S. airline industry, I first document empirical support …
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Essays in Microeconomic Theory
… agents' investments in the same good are strategic substitutes, as are an agent's two investment choices. There are always equilibria where any investing agent bears all local investment costs and others free-ride. When investment in one good reduces marginal benefit from investment in the …
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Three Essays on Social Networks
… of the social network determines the strategic interaction between link formation and public good provision; for some networks, links are strategic substitutes, so that agents attempt to free-ride on their peer's links. This leads to higher levels of public good provision, and …
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Essays on Search and Screening Frictions
… strategies, given that those are either strategic substitutes or complements. In the case of strategic complements, cost increases are more impactful. My findings provide a novel perspective on application costs, challenging the conventional view that higher costs would harm applicants. …
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Incomplete information games of conflict and collective action
… thesis consists of three essays that investigate strategic interactions between individuals engaging in risky collective action in uncertain environments. The first essay analyzes a broad class of incomplete information coordination games with a wide range of applications in economics and …