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  • Theories in Dynamic Information Transmission

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    The fact that informational asymmetries impose a significant barrier in path of smooth functioning of markets has been well known in Economics since the 1970s. Communication and information exchange allow to mitigate these barriers to a certain extent. The existing Economic literature allows to get a good grasp of static...
    Subject:
    Economics and Economic theory
    Creator:
    Starkov, Egor
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    02/12/2020
    Date Created:
    2019-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_662831 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14665

  • Essays on Information and Asset Prices

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    Chapter 1: Despite the rapid growth of passive ownership over the past 30 years, there is no consensus on how or why passive ownership affects stock price informativeness. This paper provides a new answer to this question by examining how passive ownership changes investors' incentives to acquire information. I develop...
    Subject:
    Economics, Finance, and Economic theory
    Creator:
    Sammon, Marco
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/28/2021
    Date Created:
    2021-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_818012 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15554

  • Essays in Contest Theory

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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

  • Essays on Robustness and Uncertainty in Game Theory

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    Description:
    In this dissertation I examine issues related to uncertainty and robustness in game theory. In Chapter 1 a strategic setting is analyzed where players face Knightian uncertainty about the strategic choices of their opponents. That is, in contrast to the usual Bayesian framework and in line with experimental evidence, players...
    Subject:
    Economics and Economic theory
    Creator:
    Ziegler, Gabriel
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    01/21/2021
    Date Created:
    2020-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15108 and etdadmin_upload_743149

  • 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
    Owner:
    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 in Experimentation and Learning

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    Description:
    This dissertation comprises three essays in distinct areas of economic theory, yet all are related to experimentation and learning. In the first chapter, I study how organizations assign tasks to identify the best candidate to promote among a pool of workers. Task allocation and workers’ motivation interact through the organization’s...
    Subject:
    Economics and Economic theory
    Creator:
    Durandard, Théo
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    05/31/2023
    Date Created:
    2023-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_985129 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16547

  • Essays in economic theory

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    Description:
    This dissertation comprises three essays in distinct areas of economic theory. The first chapter is co-authored with Gregorio Curello. We identify a new and pervasive dynamic agency problem: that of incentivising the prompt disclosure of productive information. To study it, we introduce a model in which a technological breakthrough occurs...
    Subject:
    Economics and Economic theory
    Creator:
    Sinander, Carl Martin Ludvig
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/28/2021
    Date Created:
    2021-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15505 and etdadmin_upload_806322

  • Studies in Persuasion and Enforcement in Political Economy

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

  • Information Design and Asymmetric Auction

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    Description:
    This dissertation contains two topics. The first topic focuses on how to use information design to minimize costs of implementing a policy that guarantees 100% passing rate of all participants by providing enough compensation for the their effort. The second topic explores an auction setting which involves financially distressed business...
    Keyword:
    auction and information design
    Subject:
    Economics and Economic theory
    Creator:
    Ma, Jiachen
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    09/22/2022
    Date Created:
    2022-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_917490 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16160

  • Essays on Optimal Taxation

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    Description:
    This thesis revisits classic optimal tax theory, recognizing that most people live in multi-person households. We derive optimal tax schedules for married agents, seriously taking the distinction between interpersonal and interhousehold inequality. After showing how individual-oriented utilitarianism typically leads to a misalignment between the households’ and the government’s objectives, which...
    Subject:
    Economics and Economic theory
    Creator:
    Alves, Cassiano Breno Machado
    Owner:
    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:16087 and etdadmin_upload_903101

  • Essays on Contract Theory

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    Description:
    This dissertation consists of three chapters on contract theory. In Chapter 1, ``Agency in Hierarchies: Middle Managers and Performance Evaluations'', I study the optimal joint design of incentives and performance rating scales in a principal-manager-worker hierarchy. The principal wants to motivate the manager and the worker to exert unobservable effort....
    Subject:
    Economics and Economic theory
    Creator:
    Brasiliense de Castro Pires, Henrique
    Owner:
    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:16007 and etdadmin_upload_897826