This essay studies the optimal timing for a firm to adopt a new process innovation in the presence of learning. A …

We study how learning affects an uninformed monopolist's supply and investment decisions under multiplicative … the random demand. Observing prices reveals this information slowly. We first show how to incorporate Bayesian learning … of learning on supply and investment decisions, as well as the steady state level of capital. Our findings are as follows …

This extended book review of Creating a Learning Society by Joseph Stiglitz and Bruce Greenwald (2014) looks at the 700 … "learning by doing", the authors throw away the doctrines of free trade, liberalization of capital, as well as the …-wide learning. In the opinion of the present author, Stiglitz and his co-author are using the term "learning" in such a broad sense …