Full Citation

Title: Information and Behavior: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations into Online Reviews, Patent Litigation, and Racial Profiling

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2018

ISBN:

ISSN:

DOI:

NSFID:

PMCID:

PMID:

Abstract: In economic systems, new information or changes in information sets may have an outsized impact on the behavior of rational economic agents. Here, I investigate this relationship in three idiosyncratic scenarios. First, I look at the responses by online reputation platform users to a positive quality signal, and inspect how this effect differs across heterogeneous agents. Second, inside a theoretical model of patent litigation and settlement, I analyze parties’ responses and litigation outcomes with respect to changes in evidence regarding patent validity. Lastly, I work through a simple model of motorist and police behavior to investigate whether there are testable racial profiling implications if motorists rationally change their behavior in response to changes in visibility.

Url: https://opencommons.uconn.edu/dissertations/1921/?utm_source=opencommons.uconn.edu%2Fdissertations%2F1921&utm_medium=PDF&utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages

User Submitted?: No

Authors: Kalinowski, Jesse

Institution: University of Connecticut - Storrs

Department: Economics

Advisor: Talia Bar

Degree: PhD

Publisher Location: Storrs

Pages:

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Methodology and Data Collection, Other, Race and Ethnicity

Countries: