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neoclassical assumption of selfish utility maximization with bounded rationality and satisficing and by incorporating the reaction …
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neoclassical assumption of selfish utility maximization with bounded rationality and satisficing and by incorporating the reaction …
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Starting from a Muthian cobweb model, we extend the profit-based evolutionary setting in Hommes and Wagener (2010) populated by pessimistic, optimistic and unbiased fundamentalists, by assuming that agents face heterogeneous information costs, inversely proportional to the entity of their bias....
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particular violation of the Full Information Rational Expectations hypothesis that requires explanation. In contrast, minor …
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Macroeconomic expectations of various economic agents are characterized by substantial cross-sectional heterogeneity …. In this paper, we focus on expectations heterogeneity among professional forecasters. We first present stylized facts and … discuss theoretical explanations for heterogeneous expectations. We then provide an overview of the empirical evidence …
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The concept of adaptive rationality as a characteristic of economic behavior viewed in the framework of evolution of … institutions is proposed in the paper. The analysis of the most important approaches to rationality in the economic theory has … allowed identifying the special nature of adaptive rationality and its manifestations at various levels of the economic …
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Evolutionary game theory provides a fresh perspective on the prospects that agents with heterogeneous expectations … conditions where agreement on a unique forecast is stable, but also show that persistent heterogeneous expectations can arise if …
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The paper explains how workers' expectations of being discriminated against can be self-confirming, accounting for the …
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This paper reconsiders the economic explanation of EU regional policy from an evolution- ary perspective. It contrasts the neoclassical equilibrium notions of market and government failure with the prevalent evolutionary neo-Schumpeterian and Austrian-Hayekian perceptions. Based on this...
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