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Need-based transfers (NBTs) are a form of risk-pooling in which binary welfare exchanges
occur to preserve the viable participation of individuals in an economy, e.g. reciprocal gifting
of cattle among East African herders or food sharing among vampire bats. With the
broad goal of better understanding the mathematics of such binary welfare and risk pooling,
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- Kayser, Kirk (Author)
- Armbruster, Dieter (Thesis advisor)
- Lampert, Adam (Committee member)
- Ringhofer, Christian (Committee member)
- Motsch, Sebastien (Committee member)
- Gardner, Carl (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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2018
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- Partial requirement for: Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2018Note typethesis
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 90-92)Note typebibliography
- Field of study: Applied mathematics
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by Kirk Kayser