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This paper presents a model of a rational seller who is actively learning the slope of his demand curve via his pricing … (as observed in the data), which has proved to be a major challenge to most price setting models.  This model's learning …
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History offers many examples of dictators who worsened their behavior significantly over time (like Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe), while there are also cases of dictators who have displayed remarkable improvements (like Jerry Rawlings of Ghana).  We show that such mutations can result from rational...
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.  We propose a completely uncoupled learning process that selects a subset of the core of the game with a natural equity …
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learning based on level-k reasoning.  We find a systematic positive relationship between cognitive ability and levels … ability to that of character skills, and find that both cognition and personality affect behavior and learning.  More …
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In an environment where voters face an inference problem on the competence level of policy makers, this paper shows how subjecting these policy makers to reelection can reduce the degree of policy experimentation to the benefit of the status quo.  This may be a reason why some notable policy...
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People believe that, even in very large samples, proportions of binary signals might depart significantly from the population mean.  We model this "non-belief in the Law of Large Numbers" by assuming that a person believes that proportions in any given sample might be determined by a rate...
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Models of macroeconomic learning are populated by agents who possess a great deal of knowledge of the "true" structure … of the economy, and yet ignore the impact of their own learning on that structure; they may learn about an equilibrium …, but they do not learn within it.  An alternative learning model is presented where agents' decisions are informed by …
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the existing literature, which typically focuses on the learning of private agents during a disinflation.  We build a …
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This paper presents a neural network model developed to simulate the endogenous emergence of bounded-rational behavior in normal-form games. There exists an algorithm which, if learnt by a neural network, would enable it to perfectly select Nash equilibria in never before seen games. However,...
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other, and can delay their decision. Subjects acted rationally, gaining from observational learning, despite penalties for …
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