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alternative rational inattention theory better conform with evidence from perceptual discrimination experiments …
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We study information acquisition and dynamic withdrawal decisions when a spreading rumor exposes a solvent bank to a run. Uncertainty about the bank's liquidity and potential failure motivates depositors who hear the rumor to acquire additional noisy signals. Depositors with less informative...
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The question of whether and how mutual fund managers provide valuable services for their clients motivates one of the largest literatures in finance. One candidate explanation is that funds process information about future asset values and use that information to invest in high-valued assets....
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voting and social learning, we illustrate that sequential elections place too much weight on the preferences and information …
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is unobserved, and he optimally learns from observations of the economy. This is a classic problem of learning and … of modern policy-relevant models. As in most Bayesian learning problems, the optimal policy typically includes an … approximation to the BOP. We provide some simple examples to illustrate the role of learning and experimentation in an MJLQ …
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This paper develops a theory of expectations-driven business cycles based on learning. Agents have incomplete knowledge … series is captured, unlike in standard models. Inherited from real business cycle theory, the benchmark model suffers a …
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Does bounded rationality make paternalism more attractive? This Essay argues that errors will be larger when suppliers … comparative statics suggest that bounded rationality will often increase the costs of government decisionmaking relative to …
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We analyze a rational-expectations model of information acquisition and price formation in an intermediate- good market: prices and net supply are non-negative, there are no noise traders, and the intermediate good has multiple potential uses. Several of our results differ from the classic...
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We analyze a rational-expectations model of price formation in an intermediate-good market under uncertainty. There is a continuum of dyads, each consisting of an upstream party and a downstream party. Both parties can make specific investments at private cost, and there is a machine that either...
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learning through college grades and wages, whereby individuals may leave or re-enter college as a result of the arrival of new …
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