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Author:

Atalay, Ayse Selin

Title:

MORTALITY SALIENCE AND CONSUMER RISK TAKING: STRIVING FOR PERSONAL CONTROL AND SELF-ESTEEM

Graduate Program:

Business Administration

Keywords:

risk taking
need for control
need for self esteem
terror management
risk aversion
consumer decision making
mortality salience

File:

Download ayse_selin_atalay-_thesis-march_2007.pdf

Committee Members:

Johann Baumgartner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Margaret Grace Meloy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William T Ross, Committee Member
Melvin Michael Mark, Committee Member
Anna S Mattila, Committee Member

Author:

Yano, Yuki

Title:

Incentives and Moral Hazard in Agri-Environmental Policy

Graduate Program:

Agricultural Economics

Keywords:

risk aversion
compliance
asymmertic information
Agri-environmental policy
rewards

File:

Download Yuki_Yano_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Prof David Blandford, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Blandford, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Gerard Abler, Committee Member
James Samuel Shortle, Committee Member
Fan Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Toh, Christine

Title:

Creativity in Engineering Design: Understanding the Factors The Influence Creative Idea Development

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

creativity
product interactions
example modality
visual representation
concept selection
risk aversion
ambiguity aversion

File:

Download IE_Thesis_Toh_FINAL_v2.pdf

Committee Members:

Scarlett Rae Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Traore, Abdelmoumine

Title:

Essays on the Mitigation of Climate-Related Stochastic Losses through Investment and Insurance

Graduate Program:

Energy, Environmental, and Food Economics (PhD)

Keywords:

Crops(Corn and Soybeans)
Crop Insurance
typical risk
short-term risk
weather
factors
heterogeneity
discrete choice
panel data
fixed effects
unit structure level
Investment
insurance
expected utility
robust optimization
long (short)-term risk vs. long (short)-term uncertainty
risk aversion
climate change
prosocial
green bond
conventional bond utility
optimization
risk aversion
environmental regulation
green default

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Committee Members:

Douglas Wrenn, Program Head/Chair
Robert Weaver, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Katherine Zipp, Major Field Member
Uday Shanbhag, Outside Unit & Field Member
Douglas Wrenn, Major Field Member