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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Strategic Uncertainty"”.
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Essays in experimental macroeconomics
… in a beauty-contest game characterized by strategic complementarity: A baseline in which the same shock hits the economy four times, and a treatment in which the shocks are heterogeneous. We find that convergence to equilibrium accelerates with each shock in both scenarios. We then run a …
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Essays in experimental economics on contract design
… contracts are restructured to shift more strategic uncertainty onto agents. Thus, agents are no worse off under successful relational contracting but are significantly worse off when there is a breakdown in the relationship and/or performance outcomes are not favorable. Additionally, …
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Bandit Problems under Censored Feedback
… feedback received by the principal depends on strategic uncertainty (e.g., agents’ willingness to follow a recommendation) and/or random uncertainty (e.g., loss or delay in arrival of information). Such challenges often arise in AI-driven platforms, with applications in recommender systems, …
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Financial market failures and systemic crises
… guarantees improve welfare by reducing strategic uncertainty.
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Command Climate and Ethical Behavior: Perspectives from the Commandant's of the Marine Corps
… aggravated by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, strategic uncertainty, and societal changes that carry over to the military such as women serving in infantry roles and the use of social media. These challenges are exacerbated by the stressors unique to the military such as lengthy separations …
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Essays on Game Theory
… studies mixed strategy equilibria with uncertainty aversion in strategic games. Experimental evidence has found a substantial discrepancy between the prediction of mixed-strategy Nash equilibrium and observed choice frequency. The quantal response equilibrium model of Mckelvey and …
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Essays in Experimental Economics
… relies on 15 games, characterised by an explicit strategic structure -- ie strategic complementarity or substitutability. We find that subjects’ stated beliefs about the actions of their opponents are generally inconsistent with standard models of strategic thinking. Moreover, we observe that the …
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Designing Public Organizations and Institutions: Essays on Coordination and Incentives
… as agents face a trade-off between lowering the strategic uncertainty for the group and the costs of communication, the least efficient state is often the unique stochastically stable state. Making communication mandatory on the other hand induces efficient coordination, whereas letting a team …
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Three Essays on Emotion, Coordination, and Economic Behavior
… factors influence individual decision-making and strategic interactions. This dissertation consists of three chapters. In the first chapter, "Minimum-effort game under stochastic monitoring", I design and experimentally test a coordination device "stochastic monitoring" in classical minimum-effort …
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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 …