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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"strategic interaction"”.
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Principal Moral Hazard, Environmental Regulatory Biases, and Strategic Interaction among Chinese Local Governments
Principal moral hazard is one of the major concerns that generates undesired and inefficient governance outcomes. Although the principal moral hazard theory is very well-established, little empirical evidence has been provided on how principal moral hazard is operating in practice and what …
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Are relative performance measures in CEO incentive contracts used for risk reduction and/or strategic interaction
… RPE has the additional role of motivating strategic interaction between own-firm and peer-firm managers, as industrial organization theory predicts, and whether the two objectives of RPE are mutually exclusive. Using data from the U.S. airline industry, I first document empirical support …
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The Growth and Limits of Judicial Independence in China
… in China as stagnant, this thesis employs the strategic interaction approach to study the development of impartial adjudication in China and argues that judicial decision-making is more complicated than conventionally appreciated. The extent of adjudicative independence is evolving with the …
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Preference Games and Sink Equilibria
… form a predictive and well-founded model of strategic interaction that both clarifies problems from classical game theory and presents new solutions and predictions. Our approach is three-pronged. First, we show preference games are axiomatically well-motivated and so are broadly-applicable …
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Preference Games and Sink Equilibria
… form a predictive and well-founded model of strategic interaction that both clarifies problems from classical game theory and presents new solutions and predictions. Our approach is three-pronged. First, we show preference games are axiomatically well-motivated and so are broadly-applicable …
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Essays on Tax Increment Financing
… First, that neighboring municipalities engage in strategic interaction when considering TIF adoption and second, that municipalities adopt TIF to capture property tax revenue from overlapping jurisdictions. The findings indicate that municipalities do engage in strategic interaction, which …
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Simulations as Lab Experiments: Gender, Security and Success in Diplomacy
… and experimental laboratories for analyzing strategic interaction in international politics.
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Regulatory competition and the politics of environmental enforcement
… evidence. Specifically, I estimate a series of strategic interaction models which aim to detect whether state enforcement of three federal pollution control programs - the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act - follows a pattern consistent with …
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Essays on international trade policy and international outsourcing
… in a given sector. Chapter 2 analyzes the strategic interaction among firms in a given sector and shows how lobbies are formed when protection from foreign competition represents a public good. This chapter offers different criteria that lobby formation might obey and analyzes the impact of …
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Remote Sensing, Inference, and Intelligence in the Information Environment
… mis- and disinformation within online social interactions. We begin by outlining three layers of complexity within this IE that make it exceedingly difficult to understand (strategic interaction, technological mediation, and cognitive obfuscation) and describe the framework of logical …
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Game theory and real options : analysis of land value and strategic decisions in real estate development
… options theory in real estate development at the strategic level, trying empirically to explain different economic observations among different metropolitan cities and different property types. The real options theory provides a rich theoretical framework to analyze investment values in real …
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Spatial structure and informational asymmetry in the economics of multiple stock renewable resources
… addressed in a dynamic setting. I describe the strategic interaction between a social planner and two different types of harvesters, one of which imposes a "technological externality" on the other. Using a disaggregated or "representative agent model," I compare the relative performance of …
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On Individual Decision Making and Responsibility for Others
… for themselves and others when involved in strategic interaction.
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The effect of Trust on Innovation: A Behavioral Investigation
… of trust on innovation in dyads involved in a strategic interaction. After eliciting trust and risk attitudes through established experimental measures, participants first familiarize themselves with a task and then choose between repeating the known task or attempting a riskier, but …
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Information Asymmetries, Transparency, and Monetary Policy
… agents to the central bank. We analyze the strategic interaction between a number of unions and a central bank and evaluate whether the independent acquisition of information about real shocks by the central bank is in the interest of society.
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Essays in Behavioural and Experimental Economics
… and risk preferences, trust, and behaviour in strategic interaction. To do that, I use data from a laboratory experiment in which university students participated in three different games (a public goods game, a response game, and an investment game) and in a task for eliciting risk …
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Contemporary democratic separatist movements: The politics of new state creation by referendum
… movements. The third chapter considers the strategic interaction that occurs between a nation-state, and a democratic separatist movement therein. At question is the holding and endorsing of a popular referendum on the question of secession. I propose a framework for how we may interpret the …
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Link Game Theory and Machine Learning in Theories and Applications
… theory is the study of mathematical models of strategic interaction among rational decision-makers. It has applications in all fields of social science, as well as in logic, systems science and computer science. Today, game theory applies to a wide range of behavioral relations. On the other …
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On the Optimal Design of Leniency Programmes
… ratio increases. In Chapter 3, we study the strategic interaction between a cartel and an an- titrust authority whose evidence against the cartel is private information. Within the framework of a signalling game, we explore the antitrust authority�s incentives to reveal the strength of its …
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Equilibrium characterization for resource allocation games on single-path serial networks
… Allocation Game we examined in this work is a strategic interaction where a principal distribute an infinitely divisible good among different agents based on their specific valuations of said good. The distribution is done by a particular scheme first studied by Kelly [15] with no …
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