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This study was prepared by Beate Schirwitz while she was working at the Ifo Institute’s Dresden Branch. It was completed in February 2012 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Faculty of Law, Management, and Economics at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in July 2012. It focuses on a...
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This dissertation consists of six self-contained chapters that are related to the behavior of firms and politicians in a broader sense. After an introduction to the topic, the first part of the dissertation elaborates on how institutional and political framework conditions influence the behavior...
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Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die Aufteilung eines Budgets auf mehrere öffentliche Güter mittels einer Abstimmung. Hierzu betrachten wir Abstimmungsregeln, unter denen jeder Agent eine Budgetaufteilung vorschlägt und dann aus diesen Vorschlägen eine Budgetaufteilung (Allokation) bestimmt...
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The central puzzles in financial economics commonly include violations of the expectations hypotheses, predictability of excess returns, and the levels and volatilities of nominal bond yields, in addition to well-known equity premium and the risk-free rate puzzles. Equally surprising is the...
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' concern with ambiguity on true probability measure.In order to identify and estimate key parameters in the models, I use a …-14 without ambiguity aversion. Related, the estimated ambiguityaversion is both economically and statistically significant and … higher than 1, around 1.3-22 with ambiguity aversion, and quite highwithout ambiguity aversion. The identification of EIS …
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This volume was prepared by Inga Heiland while she was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in July 2016 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It comprises five chapters addressing one or more aspects of international trade and...
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This thesis deals with decision making under ambiguity. Ambiguity refers to situations in which probabilities for … studied phenomenon, then, first of all, there is an ample empirical evidence confirming ambiguity-sensitive behavior, and … nature of ambiguity-sensitive behavior in the context of static, dynamic and interpersonal decision problems. For this …
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of success, expected payoffs, the level of ambiguity regarding success, and preferences to compete. I explore the effects … unique experiment design to measure ambiguity aversion, which can be modified to also control for risk aversion. A measure of … ambiguity aversion has value as individuals in labor markets have ambiguous signals about their probabilities of success in …
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Bayesian updating. The essays consider, respectively, ambiguity, and information cascades, in environments in which limitations … explicitly considered.Decision making under ambiguity has been of interest to economists since the 1920's (Knight (1921), Keynes … ambiguity attitudes using a within subject design across individual choice and market environments. The evidence favors …
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