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The intermingling between cognitive economics and experimental

Novarese, Marco; Rizzello, Salvatore - EconWPA - 2004

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

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Genetic Action Trees A New Concept for Social and Economic Simulation

Pitz, Thomas; Chmura, Thorsten - EconWPA - 2005

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

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Agent-Based Computational Economics

Tesfatsion, Leigh - EconWPA - 2002

Agent-based computational economics (ACE) is the computational study of economies modeled as evolving systems of autonomous interacting agents. Starting from initial conditions, specified by the modeler, the computational economy evolves over time as its constituent agents repeatedly interact...

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A Study of Neo-Austrian Economics using an Artificial Stock Market

Benink, Harald A.; Gordillo, Jose Luis; Pardo, Juan Pablo; … - EconWPA - 2004

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 …

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Multi-Unit Auctions to Allocate Water Scarcity Simulating Bidding Behaviour with Agent Based Models

Hailu, Atakelty; Thoyer, Sophie - EconWPA - 2005

Multi-unit auctions are promising mechanisms for the reallocation of water. The main advantage of such auctions is to avoid the lumpy bid issue. However, there is great uncertainty about the best auction formats when multi-unit auctions are used. The theory can only supply the structural...

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Individual learning and team functioning

Novarese, Marco - EconWPA - 2004

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 …

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Toward a Cognitive Experimental Economics

Novarese, Marco - EconWPA - 2002

This paper aims to analyze and exemplify some methodological implications on the way to conduct experiments related to the adoption of a cognitive approach in Economics. Many differences arise in relation to a more traditional way. In fact cognitive economics has strong descriptive attention and...

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How Do People Learn by Listening to Others? Experimental Evidence from Thailand

Healy, Andrew - EconWPA - 2005

This paper presents experimental evidence about how individuals learn from information that comes from inside versus outside their ethnic group. In the experiment, Thai subjects observed information that came from Americans and other Thais that they could use to help them answer a series of...

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Evolution as Learning Yields Hyperbolic Discounting

Woods, James - EconWPA - 2003

Learning is modeled as an infection, which jumps from person to person. The rate of infection mimics individual …

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Heterogeneity and Learning in Labor Markets

Woodcock, Simon D. - EconWPA - 2005

This paper examines the role of agent heterogeneity and learning on wage dispersion and employment dynamics. In the … LEHD database. The mixed effect specifications generalize the earlier work of AKM and others. The learning component of the … residuals are consistent with Bayesian learning, and to estimate structural parameters of the matching model. I find …

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