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exploration (trying out each arm to find the best one) and exploitation (playing the arm believed to give the best payoff) …
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's dilemma payoff matrix (S, R, T, P) = (-2, 2, 4, 0). Twenty-one different combinations of these parameters were used in the …
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show that for all specifications of priorbeliefs and payoff-generating processes that satisfy some separability condition … current payoff of the risky arm and the expected full-information payoff, given current information. The separability …'s expected payoff per unit of time is time-invariant and actual payoffs are generated by a process with independent and …
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This paper studies how external incentives can help agents to coordinate in summary-statistic games. Agents follow a myopic best-reply rule and face a trade-off between efficiency and strategic uncertainty. A principal can help agents to coordinate on the Pareto optimal equilibrium by monitoring...
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The paper considers a class of decision problems with in_nite time horizon that contains Markov decision problems as an important special case. Our interest concerns the case where the decision maker cannot commit himself to his future action choices. We model the decision maker as consisting of...
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Many, if not most, personalistic dictatorships end up with a disastrous decision such as Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union, Hirohito's government launching a war against the United States, or Putin's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Even if the decision is not ultimately fatal for the...
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We report on an experiment that tests for the effects of democratic versus hierarchical rules for joint decision making in organizations, like companies, which operate in a competitive environment. While discussion improves outcomes via an effect on public goods contributions, we find that there...
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Response times are a simple low-cost indicator of the process of reasoning in strategic games. In this paper, we leverage the dynamic nature of response-time data from repeated strategic interactions to measure the strategic complexity of a situation by how long people think on average when they...
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Response times are a simple low-cost indicator of the process of reasoning in strategic games (Rubinstein, 2007; Rubinstein, 2016). We leverage the dynamic nature of response-time data from repeated strategic interactions to measure the strategic complexity of a situation by how long people think on...
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