Author: Domonique Desruelle
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Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Three Essays on the Economics of Information and Its Applications to Trade Policy
Three Essays on Economics of Information Technology
Three Essays in the Economics of Information
Author: Daniel Martins de Almeida Barreto
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This thesis is comprised of three essays in the economics of information. In the first one we analyze the prac-tice of price discrimination from the prism of consumer-data driven market segmentation. We are particularly interested in the consumer-optimal segmentations, and in particular those that benefit poorer consumers the most. We show that once such distributive preferences are considered, optimal segmentations might not co-incide with consumer-optimal segmentations without distributive preferences. In particular, such "redistributive" segmentations might induce some extra profits to the firm. We also provide insights on the general shape of such redistributive segmentations. In the second chapter we study a persuasion problem in which the receiver is a "wishful thinker", meaning that he distorts his beliefs in the direct of more optimistic scenarios. We show how such bias impacts the effec-tiveness of information provision as a tool for inducing certain types of behavior, and illustrate our argument with three applications: information campaigns designed by health agencies, financial reports designed by a financial broker and political information in the context of elections.In the third chapter we study a persuasion problem in which the audience is composed of receivers who per-ceive the information being transmitted with varying degrees of refinement. We characterize the joint distribu-tion of beliefs that a sender can induce in the electorate in such a setting and show that the value that the sender can obtain through persuasion can be retrieved by process of recursive concavification of its indirect utility.
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This thesis is comprised of three essays in the economics of information. In the first one we analyze the prac-tice of price discrimination from the prism of consumer-data driven market segmentation. We are particularly interested in the consumer-optimal segmentations, and in particular those that benefit poorer consumers the most. We show that once such distributive preferences are considered, optimal segmentations might not co-incide with consumer-optimal segmentations without distributive preferences. In particular, such "redistributive" segmentations might induce some extra profits to the firm. We also provide insights on the general shape of such redistributive segmentations. In the second chapter we study a persuasion problem in which the receiver is a "wishful thinker", meaning that he distorts his beliefs in the direct of more optimistic scenarios. We show how such bias impacts the effec-tiveness of information provision as a tool for inducing certain types of behavior, and illustrate our argument with three applications: information campaigns designed by health agencies, financial reports designed by a financial broker and political information in the context of elections.In the third chapter we study a persuasion problem in which the audience is composed of receivers who per-ceive the information being transmitted with varying degrees of refinement. We characterize the joint distribu-tion of beliefs that a sender can induce in the electorate in such a setting and show that the value that the sender can obtain through persuasion can be retrieved by process of recursive concavification of its indirect utility.
Three Essays in the Economics of Information
Three Essays in the Economics of Information
Acquiring Information
Three Essays in the Economics of Information
Author: Hee-Su Kim
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Publisher:
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Three Essays on the Economics of Information
Three Essays on Information Economics
Author: Johan Jacob Fredrik Wallenberg
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Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Three Essays on the Economics of Information Systems
Author: Shu He (Ph. D.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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With the rapid development of computing devices and the improved Internet access, our daily lives and business world have been dramatically reshaped. While technology allows companies to attain unprecedented efficiency gains, it also brings about fundamental changes to the competition environment. The goal of this dissertation is to improve our understanding of three major technological developments through the lens of applied economics, econometrics, and machine learning. The first chapter is on the mobile application (app) market. The mobile app market is a fast growing platform which offers consumers millions of applications for smartphones and tablets, but the astronomical number of apps creates a search and discovery problem. I propose an optimal matching for a new advertising strategy, “Cross Promotion (CP),” which allows app developers to locate valuable users while helps app users discover new apps. Distinct from the extant platform literature, which consists mostly of theoretical formulations of platforms, I develop a two-stage model using data from a random matching experiment to examine how users preferences are influenced by apps characteristics. I propose a matching scheme which significantly improves the effectiveness of the CP using the deferred acceptance algorithm. The second chapter is on the issue of cybersecurity. I propose a potential information disclosure policy to alleviate cybersecurity threats. With a large-scale randomized field experiment consisting of 7,919 organizations in the U.S., I show through a random forest-assisted heterogeneous treatment effect analysis that the combination of information notification and publicity significantly reduces large spammers outbound spam volume, which is an indicator of an organizations underlying security condition. The last chapter investigates social media platforms, which is on companies social media strategies under challenging situations. Through a theoretical model, the use of support vector machine, and an empirical analysis using a large Twitter data set, I show the existence of both a negative spillover and a customer encroachment effect after the airline industrys major product-harm crises. In addition, I show that non-focal companies appear to harness two distinct functions of social media–offensive and defensive marketing strategies–to alleviate the negative influence and exploit the unexpected benefit as a result of such incidents
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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With the rapid development of computing devices and the improved Internet access, our daily lives and business world have been dramatically reshaped. While technology allows companies to attain unprecedented efficiency gains, it also brings about fundamental changes to the competition environment. The goal of this dissertation is to improve our understanding of three major technological developments through the lens of applied economics, econometrics, and machine learning. The first chapter is on the mobile application (app) market. The mobile app market is a fast growing platform which offers consumers millions of applications for smartphones and tablets, but the astronomical number of apps creates a search and discovery problem. I propose an optimal matching for a new advertising strategy, “Cross Promotion (CP),” which allows app developers to locate valuable users while helps app users discover new apps. Distinct from the extant platform literature, which consists mostly of theoretical formulations of platforms, I develop a two-stage model using data from a random matching experiment to examine how users preferences are influenced by apps characteristics. I propose a matching scheme which significantly improves the effectiveness of the CP using the deferred acceptance algorithm. The second chapter is on the issue of cybersecurity. I propose a potential information disclosure policy to alleviate cybersecurity threats. With a large-scale randomized field experiment consisting of 7,919 organizations in the U.S., I show through a random forest-assisted heterogeneous treatment effect analysis that the combination of information notification and publicity significantly reduces large spammers outbound spam volume, which is an indicator of an organizations underlying security condition. The last chapter investigates social media platforms, which is on companies social media strategies under challenging situations. Through a theoretical model, the use of support vector machine, and an empirical analysis using a large Twitter data set, I show the existence of both a negative spillover and a customer encroachment effect after the airline industrys major product-harm crises. In addition, I show that non-focal companies appear to harness two distinct functions of social media–offensive and defensive marketing strategies–to alleviate the negative influence and exploit the unexpected benefit as a result of such incidents