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the significant growth of survivors. At the core of our theory is the interaction of adjustment costs with learning by … differences across sectors. For a finite learning horizon version of the model, with positive dispersion in entry size, we …
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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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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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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 study how the use of judgement or add-factors in macroeconomic forecasting may disturb the set of equilibrium outcomes when agents learn using recursive methods. We isolate conditions under which "exuberance equilibria" exist in standard macroeconomic environments. These equilibria may...
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. This paper develops a model of learning by workers about the value of union. It explicitly models the U.S. institutional …
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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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