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We consider how efficient markets adopt technologies that reduce dependence on volatile factors such as oil. We find a relationship between volatility and technology overlap: new technology entry rate exceeds old technology exit rate under sufficient uncertainty. From this follows that efficient...
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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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the empirical fact mentioned above. The learning model in the paper obtains this result by using a self …
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the significant growth of survivors. At the core of our theory is the interaction of adjustment costs with learning by … entering firms about their true efficiency. In our model, we consider the effect of linear and nonconvex adjustment costs, i ….e., proportional and fixed costs, and conclude that for most configurations of adjustment costs firms will start small and grow rapidly …
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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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properties of the discrete model validation dynamics converge to those of the continuous learning dynamics. This sheds new light … on the recent constant-gain learning literature. …
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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 introduces two complementary models of firm-specific training: an informational model and a productivity-enhancement model. In both models, market provision of firm-specific training is inefficient. However, the nature of the inefficiency depends on the balance between the two key...
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