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Essays in Mechanism Design

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This dissertation comprises three distinct essays in mechanism design and economic theory. The first chapter studies the welfare implications of consumer data ownership and voluntary disclosure. I formalize this setting within a model of mechanism design with evidence and construct the seller's optimal mechanism. Perhaps surprisingly, I find that allowing...

Keyword:

Evidence, Mechanism Design, and Robust Contract

Subject:

Economic theory

Creator:

Vaidya, Udayan

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

05/31/2023

Date Created:

2023-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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etdadmin_upload_982001 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16496
Studies in Persuasion and Enforcement in Political Economy

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This dissertation presents research on the game theory of political power, both between and within nations. It first revisits a classical distinction between three different types of power or influence: information, rewards and threats. By presenting a binary-action Principal-Agent problem which incorporates the essential ingredients of all three types of...

Keyword:

Game Theory, Mechanism Design, and Political Economy

Subject:

Economics, Political science, and Economic theory

Creator:

Theisen, Alexander Scott

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

01/21/2021

Date Created:

2020-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

etdadmin_upload_742509 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15094

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