Estimating Static Models of Strategic Interactions

Estimating strategic interactions in petroleum exploration

When individual petroleum-producing firms make their exploration decisions, information externalities and extraction externalities may lead them to interact strategically with their neighbors. If they do occur, strategic interactions in exploration would lead to a loss in both firm profit and government royalty revenue. Since these strategic interactions would be inefficient, changes in the gov...

Reasoning in Strategic and Non-Strategic Interactions

Multivariate dynamical systems models for estimating causal interactions in fMRI

Analysis of dynamical interactions between distributed brain areas is of fundamental importance for understanding cognitive information processing. However, estimating dynamic causal interactions between brain regions using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) poses several unique challenges. For one, fMRI measures Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent (BOLD) signals, rather than the underl...

Developing Fuzzy Models for Estimating the Quality of VoIP

This paper presents a novel method for modeling the one-way quality prediction of VoIP, non-intrusively. Intrusive measures of voice quality suffer from common deficiency that is the need of reference signal for evaluating the quality of voice. Owing to this lack, a great deal of effort has been recently devoted for modeling voice quality prediction non-intrusively according to quality degradat...

Estimating the Strategic Value of Long-term Forward Purchase Contracts Using Auction Models

Over the last decade much attention has been focused upon strategic factors influencing corporate financing decisions, especially those relating to informational problems. The results of this research have primarily been suggestive--proposing possible explanations of phenomena, but not providing specific methods for incorporating the strategic factors into quantitative valuation techniques and ...