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Perspectives on firm decision making during risky technology acquisitions

Powell, Adam C - 2011

A novel survey dataset on computed tomography (CT) machine acquisition is used to explore which theories best answer two questions from the decision making literature. First, what determines how much uncertainty a firm has when investing in updated technology? Second, what determines the value...

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INCOMPLETE INFORMATION AND ROBUSTNESS IN STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTS

Penta, Antonio - 2010

Game theoretic modeling involves making assumptions on agents' infinite hierarchies of beliefs. These assumptions are understood to be only approximately satisfied in the actual situation. Thus, the significance of game theoretic predictions depend on robustness properties of the solution...

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Essays on internal capital markets

Mon, Myat - 2011

My dissertation investigates the internal capital allocation decision of a multidivision firm by building a model and testing the theoretical predictions using segment level investment data. It contains three chapters. The first chapter studies how distortions in internal capital allocations can...

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Perspectives on Firm Decision Making During Risky Technology Acquisitions

Powell, Adam C. - 2011

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Essays on financial and monetary economics

Licari, Juan Manuel - 2007

This dissertation consists of three essays concerning financial and monetary economics. Essay 1, "Dynamic General Equilibrium Models", proposes an alternative approach to the study of equilibrium properties of dynamic economies. By exploring the properties of the so-called law of motion, we...

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Discrimination, trust and social capital: Three essays in applied public economics

Theseira, Walter Edgar - 2009

In the first essay. "Competition to Default? Racial Discrimination in the Market for Online Peer-to-Peer Lending", l investigate the incidence and causes of racial discrimination in an online lending market. Competition ameliorates discrimination, by reducing interest rates for black borrowers...

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Production linkages, agglomeration, and spatial organization of production: A monopolistic competition approach

Hamaguchi, Nobuaki - 1995

electronics direct investment changes resulting from the North American Free Trade Agreement. Our calculations show that Asian …

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Essays on asset pricing and financial econometrics

Kang, Qiang - 2002

The dissertation is focused on studying the behavior of aggregate asset market and its relationship to real economic activity. Chapter 1 offers a new empirical perspective on the relationship between the conditional mean and volatility of stock returns. Chapter 2 builds a general equilibrium...

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Regional heterogeneity and the pattern of international trade

Nishikimi, Koji - 1999

Traditional theory of international trade has been developed on the assumption of homogeneous country in which … context, it is nearly impossible, as Nataf's theorem asserts, that the nonlinear relations about trade patterns are relevant …-land endowment ratios exhibit similar patterns of international trade. …

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Essays on the Information Acquisition of Doubt-Prone Decision Makers

alaoui, larbi - 2010

There are many situations in which individuals have a choice of whether or not to observe the eventual outcome. In these instances, individuals often prefer to avoid observing the outcome. The standard von Neumann-Morgenstern (vNM) Expected Utility model cannot accommodate these cases, since it...

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