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Risk Preferences Beyond Expected Utility Theory: Theoretical and Experimental Approaches
R?ger, Maximilian - 2011
preferences beyond the classical concept of expected utility theory. The thesis contains four main chapters.The first two chapters … dependence compared to classical models of expected utility theory. It is shown that some empirical puzzles concerning … utility theory are met. It is shown that the methodological concerns are empirically relevant when a classification of …
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Bootstrap Markov chain Monte Carlo and optimal solutions for the Law of Categorical Judgment (Corrected)
Kochanski, Greg P; Rosner, Burton S. - 2010
sets simulated for Full Signal Detection Theory and its special cases of standard Signal Detection Theory and Complementary … Signal Detection Theory. …
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Design of Discrete Auction
Sujarittanonta, Pacharasut - 2010
Chapter 1: Efficient Design of an Auction with Discrete Bid Levels This paper studies one of auction design issues: the choice of bid levels. Full efficiency is generally unachievable with a discrete auction. Since there may be more than one bidder who submits the same bid, the auction cannot...
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Zur Manipulierbarkeit der Allokation öffentlicher Güter : Theoretische Analyse und Simulationsergebnisse
Lindner, Tobias - 2011
Die Arbeit untersucht die Aufteilung eines Budgets auf mehrere öffentliche Güter mittels einer Abstimmung. Hierzu werden Verfahren betrachtet, unter denen jeder Agent eine Budgetaufteilung vorschlägt und dann aus diesen Vorschlägen eine Aufteilung (Allokation) bestimmt wird. Von besonderem...
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Zur Manipulierbarkeit der Allokation öffentlicher Güter - Theoretische Analyse und Simulationsergebnisse
Lindner, Tobias - 2011
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Internationale Migration, Verteilung und öffentliche Güter
Leiner, Nadine - 1997
Ausgehend vom theoretischen Teil dieser Arbeit wurden in diesem Kapitel kurzAnsätze migrationspolitischer Konsequenzen skizziert. Dabei wurde einleitendfür Deutschland herausgearbeitet, dass die öffentlichen Haushalte zugunsten derZuwanderer und auf Kosten der Einheimischen wirken. Bei der...
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Group Size and Incentive to Contribute: A Natural Experiment at Chinese Wikipedia
Zhang, Michael; Zhu, Feng - HKUST Business School; Harvard University - 2007
The literature of private provision of public goods suggests thatincentive to contribute is inversely related to group size. This paperempirically tests this relationship using field data from ChineseWikipedia, an online encyclopedia. We exploit an exogenous reduction ingroup size as a result of...
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Common agency and public good provision under asymmetric information
David Martimort; Humberto Moreira - École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, …; … - 2010
[This item is a preserved copy. To view the original, visit http://econtheory.org/] The provision of public goods under asymmetric information has most oftenbeen viewed as a mechanism design problem under the aegis of an uninformedmediator. This paper focuses on institutional contexts without...
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Essays on the provision of public goods
Neilson, William S. (contributor) - 2003
In Chapter 2, we present a model that allows us to study the effect ofincreased competition among charities for donations, and show that it willresult in a lower provision of public goods. When charities get donations,they must pay two fundraising costs: a travel cost and an extra cost,...
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