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inferential expectations. If a belief is overturned through the build-up of evidence, agents are assumed to switch to the rational … expectation. Thus, rational expectations is a special case of inferential expectations if agents are unconcerned about mistakenly … an individual choice experiment showing preliminary support for inferential expectations in comparison to either rational …
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A person is said to be `trust responsive` if she fulfils trust because she believes the truster trusts her. The experiment we report was designed to test for trust responsiveness and its robustness across payoff structures, and to disentangle it from other possible factors making for...
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This paper investigates whether expectations of trustworthiness and resulting acts of trust accord with an objective …
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the rational expectations benchmark for plausible parameter values and mild persistence in the shock. Taken together …, these results formally illustrate how policies which encourage expectations anchoring may be beneficial for the economy. …
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It is common to model costs of carrying out strategies in games in relation to the complexity, in some sense, of the strategies. We show a particularly general definition of complexity for this purpose, one that subsumes many alternatives as special cases. We explore how this definition can be...
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Game harmony is a generic game property that describes how harmonious (non-conflictual) or disharmonious (conflictual) the interests of players are, as embodied in the payoffs. It can be used to predict cooperation in two-player games. We show how, for large enough positive harmony...
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The paper examines the notion of a 'developmental state' and shows that China possesses the characteristics of a developmental state.  It explains the political economy which generated such a state in China and in some other economies.  It analyses the methods and mechanisms that were...
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The function of a social norm is to coordinate people`s expectations in interactions that possess multiple equilibria … perceptions and expectations. The dynamics of this process can be modeled using evolutionary game theory, which predict that some …
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employers' expectations to workers' revealed trustworthiness, we are able to detect potential misperceptions leading to sub …-optimal trust.  Expectations are largely inelastic with respect to news and negative signals have a strong (downward) effect than … positive ones.  Our results suggest that raising employers' expectations would have a strong impact on hiring. …
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Poor people often do not make investments, even when returns are high.  One possible explanation is that they have low aspirations and form mental models which ignore some options for investment.  This paper reports on findings of an innovative experiment to test this in rural Ethiopia. ...
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