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Browsing Duke Dissertations by Subject "value"

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  • Essays on Using Options to Elicit Market Beliefs about Mergers
    Borochin, Paul Alexander (2011)
    <p>The first essay of my dissertation introduces a new method for eliciting market beliefs about the expected outcomes of a merger negotiation after announcement. During a merger negotiation, the market prices of the firms ...
  • Neural Circuitry of Social Valuation
    Smith, David Victor (2012)
    <p>Few aspects of human cognition are more personal than the choices we make. Our decisions &mdash; from the mundane to the impossibly complex &mdash; continually shape the courses of our lives. In recent years, researchers ...
  • Neurobiology of Learning and Valuation
    Heilbronner, Sarah Rachel (2012)
    <p>An animal's ability to make adaptive choices is key to its fitness. Thus, the process of determining options, making a decision, evaluating outcomes, and learning from those outcomes to adjust future behavior is a central ...