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When a large number of agents play a game with strategic complementarity, information choices exhibit strategic complementarity as well: If an agent wants to do what others do, then they want to know what others know. Likewise, strategic substitutability in actions produces strategic...
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We analyze a version of Akerlof's market for lemons in which a sequence of buyers make offers to a long-lived seller endowed with a single unit for sale. We consider both the case in which previous offers are observable and the case in which they are not. When offers are observable, trade may...
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of life, but learn in a Bayesian way with successive income observations. We find that learning is very slow and affects …
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market equilibrium and find that the average learning curve is S-shaped: learning is slow initially, intensifies rapidly and … finally converges slowly to the truth. We show that increasing public information always slows down learning in the long run …
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from a VAR estimated on US data. The paper investigates whether introducing bounded rationality and learning generates … comparing the model with learning with a version that imposes rational expectations. Given that the asymptotic behavior of the …
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We study adoption of a costly new technology when the profitability of the new technique differs over individuals and there is uncertainty about these individual-specific differences. We establish that such individual-specific uncertainty results in a financing constraint when debt contracts are...
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This paper develops and structurally estimates a learning model in which firms acquire information about workers … jobs and firms. Because of the trade--off between learning and short--run profit maximization, a firm's optimal job … learning model can succeed in fitting the dynamic pattern of separations, promotions and demotions, and individual wage …
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This paper investigates a learning model in which information about a worker's ability, unobserved to both the worker … requires. We then examine the strategic effects of the dynamics of learning on a worker's career profile. We prove that price …
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We introduce learning based on genetic algorithms in a principal-agent model of optimal contracting under moral hazard … explore is to explicitly model the principal's learning process about the agent's preferences and the production technology … learning algorithms lead to convergence to the underlying optimal contract under full rationality as studied by the mechanism …
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