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, endogenous learning here eliminates that effect …
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a quality upgrade one of these inputs requires a period of learning before it can be used effectively, then in general … wasteful to tie up funds in the other inputs which will be underutilized until the date learning is over. We provide evidence …
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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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We document the transmission of social distancing practices from the United States to Mexico along migrant networks during the early 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. Using data on pre-existing migrant connections between Mexican and U.S. locations and mobile-phone tracking data revealing social...
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We study social learning between spouses using an experiment in Chennai, India. We vary whether individuals discover … gender difference in learning (only) in the household …
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in operation. The data show that serial entrepreneurship is relatively uncommon in retail trade. Of the almost 2 …
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This paper argues that a large component of success in entrepreneurship and venture capital can be attributed to skill … further support for the role of skill in both entrepreneurship and venture capital …
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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 … series is captured, unlike in standard models. Inherited from real business cycle theory, the benchmark model suffers a …
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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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