Imperfect Information in Pre-choice Screening of Options

Imperfect choice or imperfect attention? Understanding strategic thinking in private information games

In experiments, people do not always appear to infer the information of other players from their choices. To understand this thinking process further, we use “Mousetracking” to record which game payoffs subjects look at, and for how long, in games of private information with three information states, which vary in strategic complexity. Subjects often deviate from Nash equilibrium choices, conve...

Screening vs. Rationing in Credit Markets with Imperfect Information

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factor affecting choice of pistachio supplemental insurance options in rafsanjan

crop insurance is one of the best strategies to tackle farm risks and encourage producers to adopt modern production technologies. in present study, a sample of 224 insured and uninsured pistachio growers was selected for interview and collected required data using a simple random sampling method. then a logit multinomial model was used to assess factors affecting the choice of supplemental ins...

Imperfect Answers in Multiple Choice Questionnaires

Multiple choice questions (MCQs) are the most common and computably tractable ways of assessing the knowledge of a student, but they restrain the students to express a precise answer that doesn’t really represent what they know, leaving no room for ambiguities or doubts. We propose Ev-MCQs (Evidential MCQs), an application of belief function theory for the management of the uncertainty and impr...

The ethical implications of screening for HIV: whose choice reigns?