policy advice. It is the moment of extended freedom – implying extended responsibility in every casual world – that makes … of these instruments is well suited to estimate how people adapt to a reform policy that exposes them to long run …

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a learning framework in which an agent learns a policy from continual interaction with … the environment. A policy is a mapping from states to actions. The agent receives rewards as feedback on the actions … performed. The objective of RL is to design autonomous agents to search for the policy that maximizes the expectation of the …

industrial development. This research identifies reasons for the ineffective implementation of the Nigerian content policy and …

investments in IT and in research. The dissertation reviewsrelevant science policy literature and literature on the effects of …

policy variables. I also compare hybrid adoption patterns over timeto the U.S. average for specific states that have changed … incentive policies, to determinewhether these policy changes are consistent with significant changes in adoption patterns …

the Fair Information Principles and requires that companiesimplement those principles.The Privacy Policy Rating System … in both countries are examined to addressthe question of which government's privacy policy is doing a better job of … improve U.S. privacy policy for better adherence among U.S.companies to the Fair Information Principles. …

scholars, policy makers and industry managers. With a focus on environmental marketing at the strategic level, this study seeks …

found in most countries. This essay develops an identification strategy exploiting policy differences between the United …

This dissertation considers optimal government policy when agents in the economy are privately informed about their … various characteristics. The first chapter deals with optimal education policy. Raising children is an important productive … implications for policy. There are two key frictions: first, parental altruism type is private information; second, it is …

water quality trading are examined from economic and environmental perspectives. Each topic and the resulting policy …