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We study the perfect Bayesian equilibrium of a model of learning over a general social network. Each individual receives a signal about the underlying state of the world, observes the past actions of a stochastically-generated neighborhood of individuals, and chooses one of two possible actions....
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This paper develops a model of Bayesian learning from online reviews, and investigates the conditions for asymptotic learning of the quality of a product and the speed of learning under different rating systems. A rating system provides information about reviews left by previous customers. A...
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healthcare. We argue that markets are most advantageous in areas where high-powered incentives are desirable, but in areas where … high-powered incentives stimulate unproductive signalling effort, firms, or even government, may have a comparative … advantage. Firms may be able to weaken incentives and improve efficiency by obscuring information about individual workers …
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We study the optimal Mirrlees taxation problem in a dynamic economy with idiosyncratic (productivity or preference) shocks. In contrast to the standard approach, which implicitly assumes that the mechanism is operated by a benevolent planner with full commitment power, we assume that any...
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High-powered incentives for the military and security services have become a common counterinsurgency strategy over the … last several decades. We investigate the use of such incentives for members of the Colombian army in the long-running civil … colonels have stronger career concerns and should be more responsive to such incentives, we show that there were significantly …
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We develop a model of information exchange through communication and investigate its implications for information aggregation in large societies. An underlying state determines payoffs from different actions. Agents decide which others to form a costly communication link with incurring the...
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incentives to coordinate with others to whom they are connected via strong links. We show, however, that when the underlying …
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