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ability to that of character skills, and find that both cognition and personality affect behavior and learning.  More … learning based on level-k reasoning.  We find a systematic positive relationship between cognitive ability and levels …
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A theory of decision making is proposed that supplies an axiomatic basis for the concept of satisficing postulated by Herbert Simon. After a detailed review of classical results that characterize several varieties of preference-maximizing choice behavior, the axiomatization proceeds by weakening...
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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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are in the dark about others' actions and the payoff structure.  This paper analyzes learning behavior in such 'black box … we study voluntary contributions games.  We identify two robust features of the players' learning dynamics: search …
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We conduct a field experiment to investigate employers' trust in workers.  A sample of real entrepreneurs and workers from urban Ghana are respectively assigned to the roles of employers and employees.  Employers have the option to hire (trust) an employee, who can in turn choose whether to...
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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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Saddlepath learning occurs when agents learn adaptively using a perceived law of motion that has the same form as the … saddlepath relationship in rational expectations equilibrium.  Under saddlepath learning, we obtain a completely general … information.  When the system is determinate, we show that a learning process based on the saddlepath is always e-stable.  When …
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In this paper we address the question as to why fund managers may trade on short-term information in a financial market that offers more profitable trading on long-term information. We consider a setting in which a fund manager`s ability is unknown and an investor uses performance observations...
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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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