The papers of the dissertation focus on decision making under uncertainty of farmers in developed and developing countries and apply experimental approaches in order to investigate farmersʾ risk attitude and investment behavior. The first paper experimentally examines the investment and...

"Making Better Decisions introduces readers to some of the principal aspects of decision theory, and examines how these might lead us to make better decisions.[bullet] Introduces readers to key aspects of decision theory and examines how they might help us make better decisions[bullet]...

The authors adapt modern control theoretic techniques based on robust control theory to economic modelling and decision making. The main motivation behind the proposed approach is that concern about model misspecification in economics leads to decision strategies that work over the set of nearby...