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In many markets consumer biases do not affect prices, since competition forces firms to price their products close to marginal cost; competition protects the consumer. We show that noisy consumer product evaluations undermine the force of competition, enabling firms to charge high mark-ups in...
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In this paper we consider a model where some consumers act in a boundedly rational way by treating money as non-fungible (Kahneman and Tversky (1979) and (1984), Thaler (1987) and (1990). The budget is broken up into different expenditure groups (cookie-jars). Given the amount of resources...
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account of structural aspects implied by the learning process. In the most general specification, earnings residuals have a … structures, including the martingale hypothesis implied by the learning process. I find considerable support for the matching …
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. Learning about the transmission process of monetary policy is introduced by having heterogeneous agents - i.e. the central bank …. Here following Evans and Honkapohja (2001), the learning scheme we investigate is that of least-squares learning (recursive … OLS) using the Kalman filter. We find that optimal monetary policy under learning is a policy that separates estimation …
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In this paper we experimentally investigate decentralized, organizational learning. The main objective is to understand … how learning members of an organization cope with the confounding effects of the simultaneous learning of others. We use … versions of a simple "success-or-failure" game due to Blume and Franco [2003] as our stylized model of organizational learning …
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private agents' learning process, determines the speed at which the economy converges to the rational expectation equilibrium … convergence. I assess the relevance of the transition period from the learning to the rational expectations equilibrium when …
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We solve in closed form the optimal consumption / portfolio choice problem for the class of isoelastic utility functions under incomplete information about the mean return of the stock price. Our approach consists in converting the original investor's problem into an equivalent program where the...
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This paper analyzes a stochastic model of evolution in normal form games. The long-run behavior of individuals in this model is investigated in the limit where mutation rates tend to zero, while the expected number of mutations, and hence population sizes, tend to infinity. It is shown that...
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the information and learning dynamics between the Federal Reserve and a representative investor. Stock prices react to …
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