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Rationally inattentive decision-making: Bayesian decision-making with information choice
Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 112251 Lift date: 2021-08-23T20:46:41Z Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system
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Information choice within disclosures, mobile devices, and investor estimates of fundamental value
I examine how information choice within financial disclosures interacts with the screen size used to view the disclosure (traditional computer or small mobile device size) to influence investors' estimates of fundamental value. One proposed solution to concerns of investors’ increasing information …
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Essays in Microeconomic Theory
… different research problems studying the use of information. In chapter 2, we study a mechanism design problem where the Principal hires two agents to inspect a product, the quality of which is uncertain. The main research question we ask is the comparison of the inspection protocols. We found …
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Three Essays on Consumption and Information
… mechanisms shape individual consumption and information preference. Chapter 1 explores the impact of COVID-19 lockdown policies on alcohol and tobacco use in the United States. Using data from the 2020 wave of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) and exploiting the exogenous …
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Information selection and belief updating in hypothesis evaluation
… of more general constraints. Experiments on information choice showed that subjects were sensitive both to explicitly presented probabilistic information and to the likelihood of evidence with regard to background beliefs. It is argued - in contrast with other views in the literature - that …
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Behavioral and Neural Substrates of Decision-Making Under Perceptual and Reward Uncertainty: The Role of Task Structure
… relationship between reward and perceptual information in guiding choice, with some studies suggesting that individuals optimally combine the two. Uncertainty in both reward expectations and perception have been shown to alter choice behavior, however few studies have manipulated both …
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Essays in Decision Theory
… that he considers justifiable. In each choice setting, the DM maximizes his true preference over the subset of alternatives that maximize at least one of the justifiable preferences. The justification model unites a broad class of empirical work on distributional preferences, …
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Three Essays on Behavioral Economics : Bribery Solicitation, Pity System and Information Avoidance
… System and the effect of meat consumption on information avoidance. The first chapter is the analysis of the effect of bribery solicitation on behavior change. Bribe solicitation is a critical but overlooked part of corruption. This paper uses a one-shot online experiment between citizens and …
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Three Essays in Macroeconomics
… between providing the public with useful information and the risk of overwhelming it with excessive communication. In chapter 1, I model this tension in a heterogeneous-information environment in which an information authority chooses how many signals to provide regarding an aggregate …
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Essays in Financial Economics
… The first chapter studies how transparency (information disclosure), along with long term incentive of informed dealers, affect price informativeness (efficiency), market liquidity and welfare in dynamic over the counter (OTC) markets. We show more transparency, via the public disclosure of …
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Behavioral Determinants of Biofortified Food Acceptance: The Case of Orange-fleshed Sweet Potato in Ghana
… sweet potato (OFSP) using data from a choice experiment conducted in Ghana. I find that OFSP is preferred to traditional white-fleshed and yellow-fleshed sweet potatoes as indicated by consumers' marginal willingness to pay for the three varieties. I also find that respondents' …