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. We find that the firm encourages social learning for a greater range of beliefs and has greater expected revenue when it …
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We examine innovative contexts like scientific research or technical R&D where agents must search across many potential projects of varying and uncertain returns. Is it better to possess incomplete but accurate data on the value of some projects, or might there be cases where it is better to...
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to the next period with the hope of learning the unknown quality. We analyze the monopolist's pricing and waiting …
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to the next period with the hope of learning the unknown quality. We analyze the monopolist's pricing and "waiting …
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to the next period with the hope of learning the unknown quality. We analyze the monopolist's pricing strategies when …
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We analyze dynamic price competition in a homogeneous goods duopoly, where consumers exchange information via word-of-mouth communication. A fraction of consumers, who do not learn any new information, remain locked-in at their previous supplier in each period. We analyze Markov perfect...
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We develop a 'basic principles' model which accounts for the primary life cycle consumption of films as a social coordination problem in which information transmission is governed by word of mouth. We fit the analytical solution of such a model to aggregated consumption data from the film...
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This paper shows how sustainable consumption patterns can spread within a population via processes of social learning … even though a strong individual learning bias may favor environmentally harmful products. We present a model depicting how … the biased transmission of different behaviors via individual and social learning influences agents' consumption behavior …
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connection between Menger's 19th century theory of goods and 20th century learning theories is established. The problem of how to … get from individual learning processes to aggregate consumption patterns is approached by recollecting the genetic … underpinnings of human learning and its contingency on certain physical and social conditions. Taking into account that these …
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combining the learning aspect of experience goods with reference-dependent preferences, we setup a field experiment in Northern … Uganda in which three health products differing in their scope for learning were initially offered either for free or for … sale at market prices. In line with prior studies, when the product has potential for positive learning, we do not find an …
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