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We show that for many classes of symmetric two-player games, the simple decision rule 'imitate-if-better' can hardly be … game or a quasiconcave game. Our results apply to many interesting examples of symmetric games including 2 x 2 games …, Cournot duopoly, price competition, public goods games, common pool resource games, and minimum effort coordination games. …
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equilibrium under fictitious play like learning processes. We use two 4 x 4 games each with a unique mixed Nash equilibrium; one … is stable and one is unstable under learning. Both games are versions of Rock-Paper-Scissors with the addition of a …We report experiments designed to test between Nash equilibria that are stable and unstable under learning. The 'TASP …
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This paper collects and reviews information about routes to retirement and exits from the labor force by older workers in Sweden. It gives a concise survey of rules of the major retirement schemes covering disability, sickness and unemployment. Usinglongitudinal micro data from the period...
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By incorporating the Harvey accumulator into the large approximate dynamic factor framework of Doz et al. (2006), we are able to construct a coincident index of financial conditions from a large unbalanced panel of mixed frequency financial indicators. We relate our financial conditions index,...
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This paper examines maximum likelihood estimation via hill climbing and the expectations maximization (EM) algorithm in the context of Hamilton's Markov switching framework. The techniques are explained in detail and are followed by a discussion of both analytic and computational issues. Both...
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Markov models introduce persistence in the mixture distribution. In time series analysis, the mixture components relate to different persistent states characterizing the state-specific time series process. Model specification is discussed in a general form. Emphasis is put on the functional form...
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Applying unawareness belief structures introduced in Heifetz, Meier, and Schipper (2012), we develop Bayesian games … higher awareness levels and restricted from higher to lower awareness levels. We apply Bayesian games with unawareness to … relationship between standard Bayesian games and Bayesian games with unawareness. …
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-of-thumb?approximation to optimal behavior by trial-and-error methods as Friedman (1953) proposed long ago We find that such individual learning …
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The use of coarse categories is prevalent in various situations and has been linked to biased economic outcomes, ranging from discrimination against minorities to empirical anomalies in financial markets. In this paper we study economic rationales for categorizing coarsely. We think of the way...
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benefits and limitations of central bank communications in a model of imperfect knowledge and learning. It is shown that the …
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