Essays on understanding and beliefs

This dissertation consists of three essays studying economic agents making decisions under uncertainty. I introduce and study two non-standard choice models which relax different aspects of the standard model. The first essay models an agent who may be optimistic. Theories of optimism typically h...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Saponara, Nicholas
Other Authors: Noor, Jawwad
Language:en_US
Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2144/33166