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We survey the literature on the economic consequences of the structure of social networks. We develop a taxonomy of "macro" and "micro" characteristics of social interaction networks and discuss both the theoretical and empirical findings concerning the role of those characteristics in...
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We call behavior inertial if it does not react to the apparent arrival of relevant information. In a context where the precise information content of signals is subjective, we formulate an axiom that captures inertial behavior, and provide a representation that explains such behavior as that of...
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Writings on sustainability transitions generally do not say much about the particularities of the behavior of individuals and organizations. This is somewhat surprising since an important problem which transition management needs to tackle is inertia or resistance to change. Transition policy...
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We propose behavioral learning equilibria as a plausible explanation of coordination of individual expectations and aggregate phenomena such as excess volatility in stock prices and high persistence in inflation. Boundedly rational agents use a simple univariate linear forecasting rule and...
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This essay links some of my own work on expectations, learning and bounded rationality to the inspiring ideas of Jean-Michel Grandmont. In particular, my work on consistent expectations and behavioral learning equilibria may be seen as formalizations of JMG's ideas of self-fulfilling mistakes....
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We explore model misspecification in an observational learning framework. Individuals learn from private and public signals and the actions of others. An agent's type specifies her model of the world. Misspecified types have incorrect beliefs about the signal distribution, how other agents draw...
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We develop a behavioral theory of real options that relaxes the informational and behavioral assumptions underlying … applications of financial options theory to real assets. To do so, we augment real option theory's focus on uncertain future asset … values (prospective uncertainty) with feedback learning theory that considers uncertain current asset values (contemporaneous …
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