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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"nudging"”.
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Nudging Permanence
Across Berlin’s history, the street- as image, as space, as imaginary, as activity – has been, and continues to be, continuously appropriated and contested by stakeholders across the city - residents, owners, shopkeepers, tourists and others. Top-down politicians and public entities have long been …
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Nudging, transparency and rationality: An experimental investigation
This thesis is made up of three Chapters. In the first chapter, “Happy, healthy, wealthy and rational: Are biases harmful?” I conduct a quasi-experimental survey to investigate whether or not five biases and fallacies (present bias, sunk cost fallacy, loss aversion, gambler’s fallacy and impact …
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Entrepreneurial habitus and nudging at multi-generational family firms
Parent family firms engage in corporate venturing (CV) as a strategy for renewal and competitive advantage. As part of the venturing process, they provide organisational sponsorship to imbue capital and resources to their new ventures. For this study, I investigated seven parent family firms and …
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On informational nudging and control of payoff-based learning
This thesis investigates a model of informational nudging. It focuses on a situation where a decision maker faces a set of alternatives. Each alternative brings a certain stochastic reward/payoff to the decision maker. The decision maker/user repeatedly chooses from the set of alternatives so as to …
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Cafe nudge project: choice architecture for eating and nudging healthy behaviors
The objective of the Cafe Nudge Project was to assess the cafeteria environment and the flow of students through the lunch-line to determine characteristics that could be enhanced to encourage healthy food choices in three Appalachian high schools. The Center for Behavioral Economics and Child …
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ESSAYS ON NUDGING CUSTOMERS’ BEHAVIORS: EVIDENCE FROM ONLINE GROCERY SHOPPING AND CROWDFUNDING
The dissertation consists of three essays that employ predictive analytics, structural modeling techniques and field experiments to understand and nudge customers’ behaviors in two types of online engagement platforms. The first one is customers’ purchase behaviors in an online grocery store and …
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Nudging contracting firms rivals within municipal road projects in Saudi Arabia to bid competitively
Several preventive measures have been proposed to tackle bid-rigging practices in public procurement, which are based on reducing opportunities for such illicit arrangements. Maximising the number of market players is one of the most prevalent measures suggested in previous studies. However, there …
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The effect of digital nudging on the users of eCommerce websites in South Africa
… applications have incorporated digital nudging techniques to change consumers' online choice environments and influence their purchase decisions. This thesis aims to understand the effect of digital nudging on the users of e-commerce websites in South Africa. Specifically, this study …
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Nudging' health behavioural change: behavioral economics, Tobacco control and innovative finance for Cancer control
… This discrepancy can be attributed to better nudging efforts in these areas compared to tobacco control. This study aimed to determine the knowledge of tobacco-related health and social problems, applications of behavioural economics in tobacco control amongst tobacco-control stakeholders, and …
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Nudging the public: Relevance, antecedents and the level of public support for behaviorally informed policies
A viselkedési közgazdaságtan térnyerése a közgazdasági kutatások fősodrában nagymértékben kiterjesztette az emberi ítélőképességről és döntéshozatalról alkotott ismereteinket. Daniel Kahneman és Richard Thaler Nobel-díjas tudósok munkáitól inspirálva kezdtem el tudományos kutatásokat végezni a …
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Assimilation of lightning data by nudging tropospheric water vapor and applications to numerical forecasts of convective events
A lightning data assimilation technique is developed for use with observations from the World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN). The technique nudges the water vapor mixing ratio toward saturation within 10 km of a lightning observation. This technique is applied to deterministic forecasts of …
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Arctic daily temperature and precipitation extremes: Observed and simulated physical behavior
… were unsuccessful.</p> <p>Spectral (interior) nudging was introduced as a way of constraining the model to be more consistent with observed behavior. However, such control over numerical model behavior raises concerns over how much nudging may affect unforced variability and extremes. Strong …
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Nudging Retail Investors towards Sustainable and Responsible Mutual Funds: A Study of Financial Advisors and Retail Investors in Hong Kong
Sustainable and Responsible Investments (SRI) allocate funds for transition to a more circular economy. Hong Kong, as one of the leading international financial centres, trails its global peers in terms of SRI market development despite some efforts paid by the government. Hong Kong retail …
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Wind Scatterometry with Improved Ambiguity Selection and Rain Modeling
… selection errors are partly due to the "nudging" step (initialization from outside data). A sophisticated new non-nudging ambiguity selection approach produces generally more consistent wind than the nudging method in moderate wind conditions. The non-nudging method selects 93% of the …
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Keeping it together: the effect of familiarity, personality, and active interactions on group coordination
… a novel tactile interaction style termed ‘nudging’ that individuals use during group coordination. I investigated 3) the effect of familiarity on nudging and coordination in pairs and triplets. These results show that nudging can be used to overcome the disadvantages of familiarity, which …
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One step forward, two steps back: Making change in Early Head Start
… families make "progress" by a process of "nudging." "Nudging" occurred in various settings in different aspects of the home visitor-family relationship. Home visitors would "nudge" families on a personal level to take steps to improve their circumstances, such as getting an education or a …
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Mesoscale wind atlas of South Africa
… as well as observational and grid nudging is investigated in depth. New error metrics are specifically designed and applied based on 17 reliable lOni weather stations around the country with the specific purpose of evaluating model skill with respect to the wind patterns that are …
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Mesoscale Wind Atlas of South Africa
… as well as observational and grid nudging is investigated in depth. New error metrics are specifically designed and applied based on 17 reliable lOni weather stations around the country with the specific purpose of evaluating model skill with respect to the wind patterns that are …
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