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Scholarship, Admission and Application of a Postgraduate Program

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Decision Economics. Designs, Models, and Techniques for Boundedly Rational Decisions (DCAI 2018)

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This paper aims to construct a game of admission and application behavior of a postgraduate program. It attempts to expand the decision of graduate school from one party model to two party model. It suggests that the interval of postgraduate program’s scholarship determines the decision made by applicants with different capacity and family background. Also, graduate schools will try to use scholarship as a tool to select students.

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    The capacity in this paper is related to the possibility of acquiring high quality publication. The reserved capacity is higher than the requirement of postgraduate program’s admission.

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Acknowledgement

This work is supported in part by the scholarship from China Scholarship Council (CSC) under the Grant CSC NO.201606750015. We thank Settlement Co. (Waterloo) for its wonderful coffee and friendly staffs.

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  1. Key Lab for Behavioral Economic Science & Technology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, Guangdong, China

    Yehui Lao & Zhiqiang Dong

  2. Department of Economics, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada

    Yehui Lao & Xinyuan Yang

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  1. Department of Philosophical, Pedagogical and Economic-Quantitative Sciences, Section of Economics and Quantitative Methods, University of Chieti-Pescara, Pescara, Italy

    Edgardo Bucciarelli

  2. AI-ECON Research Center - Department of Economics, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan

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  3. Departamento de Informática y Automática, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

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Lao, Y., Dong, Z., Yang, X. (2019). Scholarship, Admission and Application of a Postgraduate Program. In: Bucciarelli, E., Chen, SH., Corchado, J. (eds) Decision Economics. Designs, Models, and Techniques for Boundedly Rational Decisions. DCAI 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 805. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99698-1_7

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