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In this paper we study "investment tournaments," a class of decision problems that involve gradual allocation of investment among several alternatives whose values are subject to exogenous shocks. The decision-maker's payoff is determined by the final values of the alternatives. An important...
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In this paper we study "investment tournaments," a class of decision problems that involve gradual allocation of investment among several alternatives whose values are subject to exogenous shocks. The decision-maker's payoff is determined by the final values of the alternatives. An important...
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uncertainty. We designed a multi-period experiment in which each period consisted of two stages, an R&D phase and a pricing stage …. Participants in the experiment had almost no information about the underlying functions, parameters, and probabilities. Subjects …' behavior in the fundamentally uncertain environment of our experiment may best be characterized as some kind of procedural …
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Technological progress is typically a result of trial-and-error research by competing firms. While some research paths lead to the innovation sought, others result in dead ends. Because firms benefit from their competitors working in the wrong direction, they do not reveal their dead-end...
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