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Using a large representative sample of Indian retail equity investors, many of them new to the stock market, we show that both years of investment experience and feedback from investment returns have significant effects on investor behavior, favored stock styles, and performance. We identify two...
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An autocoherent model is a model which is validated by the data if people use it to form their expectations. A structural model may be incorrect but autocoherent, thus supporting a self-confirming equilibrium. This paper explores some mathematical properties of autocoherent models. The first...
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productive workers, static advantages associated with workers' current location, and learning by working in big cities. Using …
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becomes a more accurate signal of their ability. Elections reduce the learning effect, and the reduction in this effect may …
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, leverage, and asset prices larger than predicted under either rational expectations without learning or with learning but …
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policy-makers, learning from the experience of the 1970s, eschewed activist policies in favour of policies that concentrated …
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We propose a simple model of optimal stopping where the economic environment changes as a result of learning. A primary … idiosyncratic productivity distribution across firms. For the first model, we show that learning leads to higher wage demands by the … workers. In the second model, we give sufficient conditions so that learning leads to higher wage demands for optimistic …
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models of expectations formation that rely on econometric learning. Some apparently natural policy rules turn out to imply … expectational instability of private agents' learning. We use the standard New Keynesian model to illustrate this problem and survey … learning. We then consider some practical concerns such as measurement errors in private expectations, observability of …
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We develop a model in which an entrepreneur learns about the average profitability of a private firm before deciding whether to take the firm public. In this decision, the entrepreneur trades off diversification benefits of going public against benefits of private control. The model predicts...
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agents forecast using adaptive learning. Because of the zero lower bound on interest rates, active interest rate rules are … learning dynamics we find the additional possibility of a liquidity trap, in which the economy slips below this low inflation …
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