technologies display learning effects and agents' rate of learning is private knowledge. In a simple two-period model with full … commitment available to the principal, we show that whether learning effects are over- or under-exploited crucially depends on … whether learning effects increase or decrease the principal's uncertainty about agents' costs of production. Hence, what …

explore the effectiveness of two policies intended to facilitate such integration, using a laboratory experiment that models …

, using a laboratory experiment, the effectiveness of two regularly-employed entry restrictions: entry quotas and entry exams …

We present a field study of social learning. The setting is a pair of adjacent fast food restaurants serving very … is found, consistent with the social learning hypothesis, that relative queue length has a significant effect at the …

subjects' beliefs, in the form of their eye-movements during the experiment. Our estimated choice probabilities and learning …How do people learn? We assess, in a distribution-free manner, subjects' learning and choice rules in dynamic two …-armed bandit (probabilistic reversal learning) experiments. To aid in identification and estimation, we use auxiliary measures of …

-play messages. In a laboratory experiment, we modify communication by making the sending of messages optional and costly. Even small … level, and is not significantly affected by learning. …