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This paper shows that price rigidity evolves in an economy populated by imperfectly rational agents who experiment with alternative rules of thumb. In the model, firms must set their prices in face of aggregate demand shocks. Their payoff depends on the level of aggregate demand, as well as on...
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This survey discusses behavioral and experimental macroeconomics emphasizing a complex systems perspective. The economy consists of boundedly rational heterogeneous agents who do not fully understand their complex environment and use simple decision heuristics. Central to our survey is the...
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The paper investigates social-learning when the information structure is not commonly known. Individuals repeatedly … interact in social-learning settings with distinct information structures. In each round of interaction, they use their … behavior in the long-run if and only if individuals distinguish social-learning settings and receive rich feedback after each …
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Bateson. Learning requires to recognize a series of situations as identical and then to observe the effect of given variables … hypothesis to be continuously tested. This vision of bounds and learning has many implications for the debate on rationality and …
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representative agent. In fact, an attentive recall of the evolution of these matters in Economics will immediately recognise that … rationality behaviour by people. Quite recent developments in the Economics of Knowledge, i.e. the so-called learning models, have …
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explanatory power to a variety of expectation formation models by focusing on the learning factor. Whereas the rational …
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