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and public signals. We show that competition leads the two firms to invest too early and analyse collusion schemes whereby …
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Retailers may face uncertainty about the profitability of local markets, which provide opportunities for learning when making entry decisions. To quantify these informational benefits, I develop an empirical framework for studying dynamic retail entry with uncertainty and learning (from others)....
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meeting competition clauses yield higher payoffs compared to Q-learning algorithms. …
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in models of Cournot and Bertrand competition. Products are of different quality, consumers buy sequentially and are … consumer learning. Thus, we find an information-based difference between Cournot and Bertrand competition: in the Bertrand … setting consumer learning increases the competition, i.e. products are more likely to be substitutes, and it weakens it in the …
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Crowd-sourced recommender platforms organize social learning about products by recommending items based on information collected from previous users. A crucial design question is the level of experimentation over the life cycle of a product. I study how market structure affects experimentation,...
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Despite widespread use in online transactions, rating systems only provide summary statistics of buyers' diverse opinions at best. To investigate the consequences of this coarse form of information aggregation, we consider a dynamic lemons market in which buyers share their evaluations...
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We develop a dynamic two-period generalized beauty contest to study the optimal level of publicity when disclosed information is subject to multiplier effects inherent to social learning. We build upon the static case, where all agents receive a private signal about an unknown fundamental state...
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We develop a dynamic two-period generalized beauty contest to study the optimal level of publicity when disclosed information is subject to multipliereffects inherent to social learning. We build upon the static case, where all agents receive a private signal about an unknown fundamental state...
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We report two information cascade game experiments that directly test the impact of altruism on observational learning. Participants interact in two parallel sequences, the observed and the unobserved sequence. Only the actions of the observed entail informational benefits to subsequent...
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This paper studies the interaction between coordination and social learning in a dynamic regime change game. Social learning provides public information, to which players overreact due to the coordination motive. Coordination affects the aggregation of private signals through players' optimal...
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