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Essays on information acquisition
… do not interact on the basis of some fixed prior information: choosing what to know is a central part of their interaction. The essays composing this thesis provide and apply theoretical tools to understand information as a choice variable. In the first essay on "Unrestricted Information …
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Analyst Reputation, Communication and Information Acquisition
Strategic information transmission models, also called cheap talk models, have become increasingly popular in accounting, as they have successfully brought new insights to various accounting topics. This dissertation consists of two chapters, each analyzes a model of strategic information …
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The Information Acquisition Process in Causal Attribution
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Essays in political economics and information acquisition
… respectively on optimal contracts to incentivize information acquisition, strategic voting, and conflict of interest. The first chapter, joint work with A. Clark, studies a principal-agent problem with limited-liability where an agent is hired to acquire information and take a decision on behalf …
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Essays on Consumer Information Acquisition in Marketing Channels
… game theoretical models to investigate consumer information acquisition. Its principal novelty is that I incorporate a richer supply structure with active retailers. This allows me to explore issues that are unique to the marketing channel. Essay 1: Prominent Retailer and Intra-brand Competition …
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Economic Experiments on Conflict, Information Acquisition, and Public Goods
… at Least I Tried: Partial Willful Ignorance, Information Acquisition, and Social Preferences,” focuses on the effects of information acquisition on social decision-making. The second chapter, “Paved With Good Intentions: Partial Willful Ignorance and Group Identity in Public Goods Games,” …
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An ecological model of health information acquisition on the Internet
… The present study aims 1) to determine online information acquisition practices in which college students acquire health-related information, health topics they are interested in and online tools they use to acquire health information, 2) to propose a theoretical framework based upon …
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Visual Information Acquisition, Decision-making, Pacing and Performance during Time Trial Cycling
… behaviour, using eye-trackers, to determine information acquisition patterns during cycling time trials (TT). The first study found experts looked at primary information longer than novices during 10 mile TTs, with speed being the primary information source for experts, and distance was the …
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Does Investors’ Belief on Other Investors’ Information Acquisition Affect Trading and Price?
I study how investors’ belief on other investors’ information acquisition about an asset affects trading and price, holding constant investors’ actual information acquisition. I hypothesize that the predictions depend on the trading strategy investors adopt, which is essentially determined by the …
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A Multi -Method Investigation of Consumer Browsing Behaviors and Unintended Information Acquisition: Three Essays
… three experiments were conducted to examine what information consumers may acquire through unintended information acquisition and how this information is retrieved and used in consumers' subsequent activities. Psychology literature on implicit and explicit memory was used as the theoretical …
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Home Gardener Preferences, Perceptions, Knowledge and Behaviors Associated with Pest Management Strategies and Information Acquisition
… over time; and factors that impact their acquisition of pest management information. Respondents were primarily over age 50 and highly educated, with a high level of environmental concern. They preferred sources of information that could present both pesticides and alternatives, and …
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Application and Evaluation of Unified Medical Language System Resources to Facilitate Patient Information Acquisition through Enhanced Vocabulary Coverage
… framework for studying the process of patient information acquisition and 2) to develop and evaluate automated techniques for identifying domain-specific vocabulary terms contained in, or missing from, a standardized controlled medical vocabulary with emphasis on those terms necessary for …
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Modeling Optimal Information Acquisition Time Driven by Event Importance for Decision Making: Integrating Gödel's Incompleteness, Turing's Computability, and Simon's Bounded Rationality
Στο πλαίσιο της λήψης αποφάσεων υπό συνθήκες αβεβαιότητας, η διαδικασία απόκτησης πληροφορίας διαδραματίζει κρίσιμο ρόλο στη βελτιστοποίηση των αποτελεσμάτων. Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία διερευνά τον βέλτιστο χρονισμό της απόκτησης πληροφορίας, ιδιαίτερα σε σενάρια όπου η σημαντικότητα των …
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Web 2.0-based Collaborative Multicriteria Spatial Decision Support System: A Case Study of Human-Computer Interaction Patterns
… makers acquire and integrate decision-related information within the Web 2.0-based collaborative MC-SDSS has been one of the major concerns of MC-SDSS designers for a long time. This study focuses on examining human-computer interaction patterns (information acquisition behavior) within the Web …
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How does the information environment affect information asymmetry around earnings announcements?
This paper shows that the information environment is an important determinant of private information acquisition and changes in information asymmetry around earnings announcements. I create a sample of earnings announcements from 39 countries and investigate whether firm and country-level variation …
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Choice modeling with observed and unobserved information search
… representations by explicitly modeling the information search process leading up to a choice. Information search includes information acquisition as well as information processing, the respective observability of which often raises challenges in the modeling. The observability of information …
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Essays in industrial organisation
… of price competition where firms may acquire information regarding the preferences (i.e. “location”) of customers. By purchasing additional information, a firm has a finer partition regarding customer preferences, and its pricing decisions must be measurable with respect to this partition. If …
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The Effects of Humor on Cognitive Learning in a Computer-Based Environment
… tool for increasing divergent thinking and information acquisition if the humor is given prior to the presentation of content material. This study used an experimental design to test if humor given prior to content presentation was more effective in helping students understand and remember …
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An Infrastructure for Worldwide Parallel Computing
In this thesis, we describe the robust information acquisition techniques, software design, prototype implementation, and performance evaluation of a Java-based infrastructure for supporting large-scale parallel computing on the Internet. We present results on the projected cost and performance of …
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