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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450772
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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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Auctioning Conservation Contracts and Evaluating the Risk Attitudes of Farmers: Economic Experiments in Japan
Sasaki, Hiroki; Fujie, Takeshi; Kawasaki, Kentaro; … - 2010
or inferiority of thesestrategies depends on the settings of an experiment. Consequently, experiments reflecting the …
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The Effects of Risk Attitude on Competitive Sucess in the Construction Industry
Reinschmidt, Kenneth (contributor) - 2009
This dissertation investigates the latent but critical effects of risk attitude oncompetitive success in construction applying an evolutionary approach. The approachconsiders contractors as individual entities competing with each other for common jobopportunities, and competition as an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009465038
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Online Auctions: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations
Grosskopf, Brit (contributor); Sarin, Rajiv (contributor) - 2010
This dissertation, which consists of three essays, studies online auctions boththeoretically and empirically.The first essay studies a special online auction format used by eBay, “Buy-It-Now” (BIN) auctions, in which bidders are allowed to buy the item at a fixed BINprice set by the seller...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009465115
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What is good work? Different aspects of labor contracts in theory and experiment
Bleich, Sabrina - 2009
"Good work" is interpreted from an employer's and a worker's viewpoint. An economic experiment on the existence of … their duration is subject of a second theoretical model. An experiment yields further insights to this topic. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009434478
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The effects of content presentation format and user characteristics on novice developers’ understanding of process models
Recker, Jan C.; Dreiling, Alexander - 2011
Process models are used by information professionals to convey semantics about the business operations in a real world domain intended to be supported by an information system. The understandability of these models is vital to them being used for information systems development. In this paper,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438157
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Do Static Externalities Offset Dynamic Externalities? An Experimental Study of the Exploitation of Substitutable Common-Pool Resources
Giordana, Gaston A.; Montginoul, Marielle; Willinger, Marc - 2010
Overexploitation of coastal aquifers may lead to seawater intrusion, which irreversibly degrades groundwater. The seawater intrusion process may imply that its consequences would not be perceptible until after decades of accumulated overexploitation. In such a dynamic setting, static...
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The critical discount factor as a measure for cartel stability?
Bruttel, Lisa - 2009
collusive equilibrium is more difficult to sustain when delta* increases. However, according to standard theory the distance …
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