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The purpose of this paper is to reexamine the seminal belief elicitation experiment by Nyarko and Schotter (2002) under … to be employing a simple heuristic alternative to more complex learning models. Simulations of these various belief …
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estimated EWA learning models which suffered from overfitting. Subjects modified their strategies in the direction of better … response as calculated from CA simulations of various learning models, albeit not perfectly. Examples include the observation …
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, incentive mechanisms, repeated trials and learning. The hope is that increasing awareness on some sharing methodologies will …
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We describe a candid model for learning, why and how learning transpires. We investigate the original as well as the … leading conditions of the learning process. We provide an insight into the realm of beliefs and their formation, their … the influence that learning in general has on human behavior. …
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Do players in practice make the strategic commitment moves that are predicted by game theory? Since such strategic … moves can appear somewhat counter-intuitive, we conducted an experiment to see if people make the predicted strategic move …. The experiment uses a simple bargaining situation. A player can make a strategic move of committing to not seeing what the …
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There is little consensus as to the cause of the housing bubble that precipitated the financial crisis of 2008. Numerous explanations exist: misguided monetary policy; a global savings surplus; government policies encouraging affordable homeownership; irrational consumer expectations of rising...
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cause’s major implications and deterrents. Ultimately, this analysis reveals through graph theory the interconnections among …
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This paper studies an economy inhabited by overlapping generations of homeowners and investors, with the only difference between the two being that homeowners derive utility from housing services whereas investors do not. Tight collateral constraint limits the borrowing capacity of homeowners...
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In the midst of the current financial crisis the economics profession has seen a monumental resurrection of Keynesian ideas. The debate, which Keynes started back in the 1930s, is being picked up again, not where it left off, but in exactly the same place it started. While Keynesian theories...
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in the recent literature on the housing bubbles. We suggest that the main causes of the housing bubble from 2000 to 2006 …
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