• Stimulus control: The frequency of externally triggered urges and craving can be reduced by using stimulus control techniques designed to minimize exposure to the cues. In some circumstances, simply avoiding the situation is the best strategy, especially in those filled with multiple cues for indulgence. This means that before coping responses are strong, certain activities should be curtaile...

OF THE DISSERTATION TRANSFERABLE STRATEGIC META-REASONING MODELS by MICHAEL WUNDER Dissertation Director: Matthew Stone How do strategic agents make decisions? For the first time, a confluence of advances in agent design, formation of massive online data sets of social behavior, and computational techniques have allowed for researchers to construct and learn much richer models than before. My c...

We investigate equilibrium in the buyer’s bid double auction (BBDA) in a model with correlated signals and either private or interdependent values. Using a combination of theorems and numerical experiments, we demonstrate that simple equilibria exist even in small markets. Moreover, we bound traders’ strategic behavior as a function of market size and derive rates of convergence to zero of (i) ...

Abstract We show that analyst behavior changes in response to a randomly assigned shock exogenously varies the timeliness and cost of accessing mandatory disclosures cross-section investors: analysts reduce coverage issue less optimistic, more accurate, bold, informative forecasts. Our evidence indicates strategic component their behavior: are stronger among with incentives like affiliated or r...

Our goal in this paper is to merge several central ideas in economic theory: strategic behavior (incentive compatibility), differential (or incomplete) information, and the Arrow-Debreu model of general equilibrium. By strategic behavior we refer to the literature which models economic institutions as games in strategic form and uses Nash equilibrium as the solution concept. This literature, mo...