Browsing by Author "Brown, Alexander L"
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Stephenson, Daniel Graydon (2017-05-09)This research investigates population-level behavioral dynamics, how they affect the emergence of self-enforcing conventions, and how they can aid in the design of mechanisms to better achieve policy goals. It seeks to ...
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Valdez Gonzalez, Natalia Isabel (2023-01-18)“Rational,” individualistic agents populate theories in neoclassical economics, which are intended to represent how humans respond to incentives and stimuli. However, humans do not always behave in the way the agents in ...
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Segovia Coronel, Michelle Stefania (2018-08-05)This dissertation uses experimental economics methods and biometric tools to test for the consistency of individual preferences and analyze how such preferences are affected by states of cognitive impairment and resource ...
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Xu, Zhicheng (2016-07-11)Fairness is a central topic in ethics, political science and economics. A variety of economic questions, such as charitable donation, welfare programs, taxation of income and inheritances, are closely associated with ...
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Peng, Hui-Chun (2014-07-08)This dissertation concerns individual voluntary contributions in the subscription game with three important model considerations: private information on public good valuations, threshold uncertainty and the timing of the ...
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Viriyaripart, Ajalavat (2015-08-04)The theory of global games has shown that converting games with complete information to related games with incomplete information results in a unique equilibrium prediction that typically coincides with risk-dominance. ...
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Bacine, Noah Craig (2019-04-08)This dissertation furthers our understanding of the influence of identity on behavior using experimental methods. My first project investigates the influence of social norms on behavior by testing for the presence of a ...
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Liu, Matthew (2013-03-28)Differential pricing is a contentious issue within the business environment. The public’s reaction to price discrimination varies widely from discontent to indifference. I hypothesize that buyers who do not benefit from ...
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Huseynov, Samir (2020-10-20)This dissertation work scrutinizes economic-decision making process when visceral feelings are present in the decision environment. I carefully model and study the role of attribute distortion, salience, self-control cost ...
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Vitaku, Valon (2023-04-27)This dissertation addresses the impact of payoff-relevant and payoff-irrelevant information on individual decision-making and strategic games. These studies highlight the value of using experimental tools to inform policy ...
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Brown, Alexander L; Camerer, Colin F; Lovallo, Dan (American Economic Journal - Microeconomics, 2012)
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Williams, Jacob Forrest (2014-07-16)This dissertation covers three papers concerning voluntary contributions. There are competing theories as to why individuals contribute to projects which help others (e.g., charities); many of the theoretical models have ...