The adaptive learning approach has been fruitfully employed to model the formation of aggregate expectations at the … macroeconomic level, as an alternative to rational expectations. This paper uses adaptive learning to understand, instead, the … sentiment, defined as the degrees of excess optimism and pessimism that cannot be justified by the near-rational learning model …

study experimentally to what extent cross-game learning can reduce overbidding in SPAs, taking into account cognitive skills … losses from high bids are more salient than in SPAs. Experience in FPAs causes substantial cross-game learning for … bid shading by cognitively more able participants, resulting in lower profits in FPAs. Thus, cross-game learning has the …

infinite-horizon learning, and subjective expectations with Euler-equation learning. Under rational expectations, the model … necessitates of large, possibly unrealistically so, degrees of myopia. The same result persists under infinite-horizon learning …, given that agents are still remarkably farsighted. But, under Euler-equation learning, the model can fit the data with only …

learning as a two-armed bandit problem and highlight the interaction between learning (experimentation) and production. We …

private returns to education within the employer learning framework of Farber and Gibbons [1996] and Altonji and Pierret [2001 …The social and the private returns to education differ when education can increase productivity, and also be used to … employers. If the instrument is hidden then it identifies the private returns to education, but if the instrument is observed by …

We demonstrate that heat inhibits learning and that school air-conditioning mitigates this effect. Student fixed … heat being particularly damaging. Weekend and summer heat has little impact, suggesting heat directly disrupts learning … simple benefit-cost tests. Without air-conditioning, a 1°F hotter school year reduces that years learning by one percent. Hot …

We derive the optimal monetary policy in a sticky price model when private agents follow adaptive learning. We show … order to facilitate private sector learning and thus ease the future intratemporal inflation-output gap trade-offs. The … policy recommendation is robust: the welfare loss entailed by the optimal policy under learning if the private sector …

. Learning played a major role in individuals achieving what was referred to as complete rationality. I draw on these ideas, and …