Browsing by Subject "Ambiguity"

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    • Getting a joke: the time course of meaning activation in verbal humor. 
      Vaid, Jyotsna; Hull, Rachel; Heredia, Roberto; Gerkins, David; Martinez, Francisco E. (Elsevier, 2003)
      Two lexical decision semantic priming experiments examined when, in the course of reading a joke, the initial and the intended meanings are primed; whether the meanings overlap in time; and what happens to the initial ...
    • Risk Perception and Willingness to Pay for Removing Arsenic in Drinking Water 
      Chen, Sihong (2012-10-19)
      This thesis is concerned with (i) how to estimate the perceived mortality risk, (ii) how to calculate the welfare change of mortality risk reduction and (iii) whether ambiguity aversion influences subjects' treatment ...
    • Two Essays on Ambiguity and Stock Return Volatility 
      Kang, Le (2018-07-27)
      This dissertation includes two essays on ambiguity and stock return volatility. The first essay focuses on the degree of ambiguity in the firm news, and studies the impact of ambiguous information regarding dividends and ...