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investigate this claim using a simple model of Bayesian learning. Two individuals with different priors observe the same infinite … implications for economic behavior in a range of circumstances. We illustrate how the type of learning outlined in this paper …
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We analyze the behavior of game-show contestants who play a one-shot game called Friend or Foe. While it is a weakly dominant strategy not to cooperate, almost half the contestants on the show choose to play friend.' Remarkably, the behavior of contestants remains unchanged even when stakes are...
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Sales agents are impatient relative to owners. If a good fails to sell, the owner still retains possession of that good and can enjoy its services, whereas the agent receives nothing. As a consequence, sales agents prefer a lower price than does an owner. Owners are therefore reluctant to...
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With fast-track authority (FTA), the US Congress delegates trade-policy authority to the President by committing not to amend a trade agreement. We suggest an interpretation in which Congress uses FTA to forestall destructive competition between its members for protectionist rents. We show that...
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learning between the first and the nth attempt while controlling for selection into retaking in terms of observed and … unobserved characteristics. We find large learning gains measured in terms of improvements in the exam scores, especially among …
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represent an understudied channel for this type of social learning. We study an environmentally-focused law in the shale gas …
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, endogenous learning here eliminates that effect …
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Learning or experience curves are widely used to estimate cost functions in manufacturing modeling. They have recently … shows that there is a fundamental statistical identification problem in trying to separate learning from exogenous … technological change and that the estimated learning coefficient will generally be biased upwards. Second, we present two empirical …
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This paper develops a theory of expectations-driven business cycles based on learning. Agents have incomplete knowledge …
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We study the perfect Bayesian equilibrium of a model of learning over a general social network. Each individual … characterize the conditions under which there will be asymptotic learning -- that is, the conditions under which, as the social … unbounded (meaning that the implied likelihood ratios are unbounded), there will be asymptotic learning as long as there is some …
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