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Essays on Dynamic Decisions Under Uncertainty

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This dissertation comprises three essays that study dynamic decisions under uncertainty--in particular, ambiguity. The first two chapters develop new decision models that emphasize the role of making statistical inferences in decisions. The third chapter highlights, in the context of persuasion, how different decision models can lead to distinct conclusions in...

Keyword:

Persuasion, Updating, Dynamic Decision, Ambiguity, Robust Decision, and Learning

Subject:

Economics and Economic theory

Creator:

Cheng, Xiaoyu

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

06/22/2022

Date Created:

2022-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16047 and etdadmin_upload_901139
Essays on Recursive Preferences

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Models of recursive preferences are commonly associated with a preference for early resolution of uncertainty, often regarded as an important economic channel in applications. This dissertation provides a different understanding of recursive preferences based on attitudes toward correlation, and in particular aversion to intertemporally correlated risks. Part 1 provides a...

Keyword:

Risk, Ambiguity, Robustness, Uncertainty, and Prior selection

Subject:

Economics

Creator:

Stanca, Lorenzo Maria

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

06/22/2022

Date Created:

2022-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15985 and etdadmin_upload_891458
Unintended Intentions: Security Script and Performative Enactment

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The term blowback originated from the American intelligence community to indicate the unexpected consequences of American foreign policy. In my dissertation, I give an account of how blowback results from these security policies. Blowback shows the cases that security policies create more harm than good to the enacting country due...

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Script, Unintended Consequences, Ambiguity, Policy Implementation, Security, and Performance

Subject:

International relations

Creator:

Kang, Hye Yun

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

02/12/2020

Date Created:

2019-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

etdadmin_upload_662398 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14637

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