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In this paper, we examine students' attitudes towards various allocation mechanisms for a scarce resource. For this purpose, we have run a survey among officers of the German military who are enrolled in different courses of study (such as economics) at the University of the German Federal Armed...
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. Learning played a major role in individuals achieving what was referred to as complete rationality. I draw on these ideas, and …
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We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive impact on incremental innovations. This impact is largely independent of the participation in R&D cooperations. Spillovers exert no such independent influence on drastic...
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case (less weight on EU) may lead to increased first period emissions. The effect of learning possibilities on emissions is …, considering prospective learning increases today?s abatement effort, i.e. the ?irreversibility effect? holds, if the weight on EU … MaxiMin. There is, however, the possibility of a negative value of learning. It is shown that the irreversibility effect holds …
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We develop a model in which a worker's skills determine the worker's current wage and sector. Both the market and the worker are initially uncertain about some of the worker's skills. Endogenous wage changes and sector mobility occur as labor-market participants learn about these unobserved...
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Criteria for initiation of highly active antiretroviral treatments (HAART) in HIV-infected patients remain a matter of debate world-wide because short-term benefits have to be balanced with costs of these therapies, and restrictions placed on future treatment options if resistant viral strains...
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however, behavior becomes at odds with both subgame perfection and fairness. Evidence of learning is detected for both … proposers and receivers in the estimation of a structural reinforcement learning model. The estimation results suggest that …
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innovation is that we also have direct data on the sources of learning (in this case about new technologies). Controlling for … they learnt from buyers (relative to learning from other sources). Second, firms who had learned from buyers (more than … for the learning-by-exporting hypothesis, though is not clear whether firms deserve an exporting subsidy. …
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transaction attributes, and (ii) the impact of learning on transaction costs (via standardization of contract provisions). Drawing … standardization occurs in ‘learning arrangements’ at the industry level or at the firm level. …
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This paper analyzes the term structure of interest rates in an exchangeonly Lucas (1978) economy where consumers learn about a stochastic growth rate through observations of the endowment process and an external public signal. We show that there is a premium for noisy external public information...
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