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Description:: Social networks play a crucial role in developing economies. One of their most important functions is facilitating the flow of information, particularly about the efficacy of new technologies. This dissertation explores three aspects of this research agenda. First, I study how economists can estimate the structure of a social network...
Keyword:: uncertainty, social networks, risk aversion, penalized regression, and technology adoption
Subject:: Agriculture economics, Information science, and Economics
Creator:: Alidaee, Hossein
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 05/31/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_986939 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16610

Description:: Movement and sensing fundamentally works in a synergistic manner. Animal's sensory organs --- be they independently movable like eyes or requiring whole body movement as in the case of electroreceptors --- are actively manipulated throughout stimulus-driven active sensing behaviors. Though these sensing-related motions have been individually reported and analyzed across...
Keyword:: behavior, uncertainty, Shannon-Weaver entropy, exploration-exploitation tradeoff, active sensing, and information theory
Subject:: Artificial intelligence, Neurosciences, and Engineering
Creator:: Chen, Chen
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 04/15/2021
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_675222 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14742

Description:: I examine how consumers' purchase' decisions and intentions of purchases are affected by uncertainty about future deals (temporary price cuts or sales) for a product and how these results affect retailers' optimal pricing and marketing strategies. First I look at the effects of uncertainty about the timing of deals (i.e....
Keyword:: uncertainty, retailer, deals, consumer behavior, and pricing
Subject:: Managerial Economics and Strategy
Creator:: Priscilla Yung Medeiros
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/17/2018
Date Modified:: 09/17/2018
Date Created:: 2008-11-18
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: To navigate our environment we are often required to quickly and accurately derive simplified patterns from the complexity of life. This dissertation seeks to understand when the process of pattern perception occurs and when it goes awry and individuals falsely or inaccurately perceive patterns. I review the literature on various...
Keyword:: uncertainty, information processing, decion-making, control, sensemaking, and pattern perception
Subject:: Management and Organizations
Creator:: Jennifer Ann Whitson
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Date Modified:: 08/28/2018
Date Created:: 2007-12-07
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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