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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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We address the problem of learning and implementation on the Internet. When agents play repeated games in distributed … the essential properties that constitute ``reasonable'' learning behavior in distributed environments. We then study the …
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This paper analyses the effect of firm learning on labor market efficiency in a frictional labor market with asymmetric … unknown to firms at the hiring stage. Firm learning increases relative expected earnings in high-ability jobs and, thereby … indeterminate a priori. Numerical results show that firm learning does not increase labor market efficiency. …
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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 … subjects' beliefs, in the form of their eye-movements during the experiment. Our estimated choice probabilities and learning …
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. Simulations with a least squares learning rule show that the one-shot model is a good approximation when the imprecision of …
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We study learning in a decentralized pairwise adverse selection economy, where buyers have access to the quality of … categorized more finely, and within each category beliefs reflect the empirical average. This leads buyers to have a very fine …
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Equilibrium notions for games with unawareness in the literature cannot be interpreted as steady-states of a learning … interpreted as steady-state of both a discovery and learning process. …
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We construct a dynamic theory of civil conflict hinging on inter-ethnic trust and trade. The model economy is inhabitated by two ethnic groups. Inter-ethnic trade requires imperfectly observed bilateral investments and one group has to form beliefs on the average propensity to trade of the other...
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We report experiments designed to test between Nash equilibria that are stable and unstable under learning. The 'TASP … 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 …
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cycles in the population mix. The cycle amplitude, frequency and direction are consistent with standard learning models …
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