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Technological progress is typically a result of trial-and-error research by competing firms. While some research paths lead to the innovation sought, others result in dead ends. Because firms benefit from their competitors working in the wrong direction, they do not reveal their dead-end...
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This paper studies the aggregate consequences of individual learning in the labor market. Specifically, I examine this … behavior of workers naturally occurs, resulting from a variety of individual histories. I describe the efficient learning and …
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We develop a dynamic model of opinion formation in social networks when the information required for learning a payoff … though the neighbors’ views may be quite inaccurate). This non-Bayesian learning rule is motivated by the formidable …
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This paper studies the reputation effect in which a long-lived player faces a sequence of uninformed short-lived players and the uninformed players receive informative but noisy exogenous signals about the type of the long-lived player. We provide an explicit lower bound on all Nash equilibrium...
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This paper demonstrates that a misspecified model of information processing interferes with long-run learning and … to learn the true state. I consider a social learning environment where agents draw inference from private signals … efficient learning. Prior actions aggregate multiple sources of information; agents face an inferential challenge to distinguish …
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market. In a model with both directed search and learning about the match quality of firm-worker pairs, I highlight the job … search target effect of learning: as a worker updates the evaluation of his current job, he adjusts his on-the-job search …
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dynamics result from the interaction between two learning processes: exogenous learning about the existence of short …-lived buyers, and endogenous learning about the long-lived buyer's value. …
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the views of their neighbors (even though the neighbors’ views may be quite inaccurate). This non-Bayesian learning rule …
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this result and of fact-free learning in general. …
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of fact-free learning in general. …
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