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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"information economics"”.
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Essays in Information Economics
This thesis presents three essays in information economics. In the first essay "Leveraging Benchmarks via Information Design'', I study optimal information disclosure in settings with strategic complementarities. Agents decide whether to act or not, and the designer prefers a higher aggregate …
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Essays in Information Economics
… thesis consists of three essays in the field of information economics. The first essay studies manipulation of information by partisan media. The recent increase in partisan media has generated interest in what drives media outlets to become more partisan. I develop a model to study the role of …
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Essays on Information Economics
… Every chapter deals with the question of how information affects equilibrium behavior in strategic problems. Chapter 1 is my job market paper "Limits of Global Games.'' It considers the impact of information on equilibrium multiplicity in two-player games of strategic complementarities. Games …
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Essays on Public Finance and Information Economics
… comprises three chapters on public finance and information economics. The first focuses on the interaction of imperfect information in labor markets and the tradeoffs the government faces when setting on-linear taxes. The second focuses on the role of heterogeneity in elasticities in affecting …
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The Role Of Conditionally Correlated Variables In Information Economics
… how complementarities/substitutabilities of information affect learning strategies and behavior in different economic environments. The thesis contains three chapters that focus on different economic situations. Chapter 1 studies the efficiency of decentralized team formation inside research …
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The macroeconomics of ‘financialisation’
… III-V) are inspired by (Post) Keynesian macroeconomics and modern information economics. It also complements the interdisciplinary political economy literature on financialisation, in which the macroeconomic perspective has so far been clearly underdeveloped in (chapter II). Finally, the …
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Novel context-based text analytics methods with applications on customer reviews for products and services
… guide decision-makers with deeper and insightful information from customer feedback. The meaning of the words and short n-grams are context dependent, and it must be understood in the sentence that they appear. We use sentences as the basic elements or features for describing text that helps to …
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Essays on Strategic Behavior and Economic Decision-Making: Evidence from Retirement Saving, Insurance, and Intergenerational Contexts
… how individuals make economic decisions 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 …
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Essays On The Effects Of Asymmetric Information
… one or several agents possess more or better information than the rest when agreeing upon an economic transaction. Although the information economics revolution of the 1970s laid out the majority of the theoretical foundations, the effects of asymmetric information are subtle and have not been …
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Essays in applied microeconomics
… business bankruptcy rate. The final chapter, ``Information and Default in Consumer Credit Markets: Evidence from a Natural Experiment,'' looks at the role of information in consumer credit markets. Despite the prominent role that information plays in the economic theory of credit markets, no …
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Banks, credit and culture. Cross border lending and credit ratings, their effectiveness and the impact of cultural differences.
Having the author been involved in banking and finance for almost 25 years, this thesis intends to reflect on the role of banks with emphasis on cross border lending and credit rating, their effectiveness and the impacts of cultural differences. Perhaps this would not differ substantially from a …
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Essays on dynamic public policy.
… first, parental altruism type is private information; second, it is impossible for society to monitor parental investment. The main characterization result is that in any ex post Pareto efficient allocation, in any generation, society should transfer extra resources to all poor parents. …
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Essays on Bubbles in Asset Market Experiments
… of providing expected final earning (EFE) information to subjects on the behaviors in the experimental bubble asset market. The information shows how much experimental cash a subject is expected to have at the end of the market. We conjecture that the information leads subjects to make …