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Description:: 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
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Description:: Contest theory is an area of game theory that studies environments in which agents make sunk investments in order to get a prize. These investments could be money, effort, time, etc. Contest theory is used to study a wide range of applications, like political contests, research and development, advertisement campaigns,...
Keyword:: Contest Theory, All-pay Auctions, Auctions, and Game Theory
Subject:: Economics and Economic theory
Creator:: Catepillan Tessi, Jorge Francisco
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14454 and etdadmin_upload_626486

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

Description:: Agents of online platforms often have to make purchase decisions in the face the uncertainty of the true value of an item. Observing the other agents’ actions and/or reviews is one common method to learn about an item. However such observational learning can lead to an information cascade, in which...
Keyword:: Information cascades, Bayesian Learning, Data Science, Game Theory, Social Networks, and Markov chain
Subject:: Electrical Engineering
Creator:: Tho Ngoc Le
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 02/11/2019
Date Modified:: 02/11/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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