Alexander Usvitskiy- PhD in Economics (expected 2020)
- PhD Student at Florida State University
Alexander Usvitskiy
- PhD in Economics (expected 2020)
- PhD Student at Florida State University
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We investigate a dynamic development process which involves heterogeneous agents making location choices. In our spatial model agents differ from each other by the impact they have on the development dynamics. In equilibrium, a high impact agent, the pioneer, sacrifices some short-run benefits and chooses an underdeveloped location. The pioneer imp...
We investigate a process of decision-making in a multi-period winner-take-all contest, in which competing players simultaneously choose among actions with different levels of risk every period. Strategic risk-taking is analyzed in isolation from effort choices, and, according to expected utility theory, risk preferences are irrelevant. We derive a...
