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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"private values"”.
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Forward-looking bidders in sequential auctions
… proposed model assumes that bidders know their private valuations of objects auctioned in the near future. Rational bidders "bargain-hunt" in that they bid less than they would otherwise, and early bids decrease with the private values of later objects. The model's predictions are tested in two …
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Some aspects of empirical likelihood
… sealed bid auction model with independent private values. Through estimation of the parameter in the distribution function of bidders’ private values we consider a potential problem in the EL inference when the moment condition is not in an explicit form and hard to compute, or even not …
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Georgia's Health Safety Net: A Model of Excellence: The Good Samaritan Health Center
… system is The Good Samaritan Health Center, a privately funded, not for profit 501 (c) 3 organization. The center provides dependable, full-time healthcare for Atlanta’s indigent, working poor, uninsured, and homeless population. For the MPA Professional Exercise, I have spent over 300 hours …
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Essays in economic theory
… on this connection, I show that in games with private values the sets of incomplete preference rationalizable actions, of belief-free rationalizable actions (Battigalli et al., 2011, Bergemann and Morris, 2017), and of interim correlated rationalizable actions (Dekel et al., 2007) of the …
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Dealing With Misbehavior In Distributed Systems: A Game-Theoretic Approach
… the bids are sealed, an agent can infer the private values of the winning bidders, if the auction is repeated for related items. We study this problem from the perspective of a scheduling mechanism and develop an antisocial strategy which can be used by an agent to inflict losses on the other …
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Three Essays on Social Networks
… Networks form stochastically, contingent on the private values of each agent, and include more realistic structures than networks arising among homogenous agents. I characterize the set of equilibria and identify its extremes, which have a natural interpretation as public good provision. One …
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Essays on new Internet market places
… that when all agents are fully rational, have private values, and face a perfect bid-transmission mechanism, there can still exit an incentive for bidders to systematically delay their final bid. In a manner consistent with earlier empirical observations, this incentive disappears when the …
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Essays on asymmetric information in government contracting
… At the end of the start-up phase, the firm privately learns its production cost. It then reports to the government concerning this cost, and production takes place according to the terms of the contract. The primary result concerns the effect that the firm’s investment has on the private …
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Good life in the balance: A cross-national study of Dutch and Australian disability perspectives on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide
This is a cross-national qualitative study with the purpose of obtaining perspectives held by people with quadriplegia and leading figures in disability movements in the Netherlands and Australia on the issues of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (EPAS). A disability voice is not prominent …
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Round the Corner: Pawnbroking in the Victorian Novel
… characters in social transition, adjusting their values and identities, like pledges, for mercenary ends. Frequent but furtive pledgers and social climbers Barry Lyndon, Becky Sharp, and Harry Warrington obscure their embarrassing origins and disadvantages, but their dreams of eminence fail when a …