complexity in improving cost, quality, variety, and time--to--market performance variables. Management of design complexity is …

complexity in improving cost, quality, variety, and time--to--market performance variables. Management of design complexity is …

seller with no means to signal his quality has the possibility to be certified by an institution that owns a technology to … discover the true quality and can credibly commit to a disclosure rule. We study the incentives of this institution to disclose …

account changes in the quality of goods and services over time. This paper outlines the derivation of measures that lead to … quantification of the “community preference for its perceptions of improved unmeasured quality” in products. The measures are based … on the proposition that individuals behave in such a manner as to maximise their quality of life. This is expressed by …

methodological issues. Then the attention is focused on the relevance of the experimental method for the analysis of learning and …

which one can describe the learning behaviour of agents and the changes in action spaces. Using the extremely simplified …

An agent-based artificial financial market (AFM) is used to study market efficiency and learning in the context of the … there are many coexisting signals. Learning is introduced by considering 'copycat' traders that learn the relative values of … the different strategies in the market and copy the most successful one. We show how such learning leads to a more …

This paper aims at studying the effects of learning - seen as a possible source of individual heterogeneity - on team … strategies learned in the past, to the new situations faced. Learning processes, yet, are not based on the mechanical repetition …