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Essays in strategic decision-making in complex environments

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Chapter 1: The owners of large online platforms, like Airbnb or Amazon Marketplace, are able to affect the probability that a given buyer observes a given seller on their platform. Buyers and sellers therefore interact on a bipartite graph with links between them weighted by the probability of observation. Platform owners are then able to design the network by choosing the observation probabilities. A seller's price is decreasing in their Bonacich centrality. In order to maximise p...

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SSD
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Economics
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0000-0002-6570-1903
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DPhil
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University of Oxford


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2020-11-02
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