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Essays on Information Acquisition

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This dissertation consists of three essays that deal with problems of information acquisition and aggregation and the incentives to acquire such information. The first of the essays is titled The Timing of Complementary Innovations and studies the problem of an agent that acquires information about the viability of a project...

Keyword:

Information Acquisition, Innovation, and Microeconomics

Subject:

Economic theory

Creator:

Poggi, Francisco

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

06/28/2021

Date Created:

2021-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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Endogenous Information Acquisition: Essays in Applied Game Theory

Description:

This dissertation endogenizes information acquisition in two-player games across three different settings. The first chapter explores when moral hazard in a principal-agent contract can lead to pareto improvements when it is preceeded by information gathering. The second chapter studies how product differentiation affects the amount of market research done by...

Keyword:

Persuasion, Game Theory, Information Economics, Contracts, Microeconomics, and Moral Hazard

Subject:

Managerial Economics and Strategy

Creator:

Colin Shopp

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

11/25/2019

Date Modified:

11/25/2019

Date Created:

2018-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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