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Deliberation, information aggregation and collective decision making

Swank, Otto H.; Wrasai, Phongthorn - 2003

We study a model of collective decision making with endogenous information collection.Agents collect information about the consequences of a project, communicate, and then vote onthe project. We examine under what conditions communication may increase the probability thatgood decisions are made....

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An unlucky feeling : overconfidence and noisy feedback

Grossman, Zachary; Owens, David - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 84 (2012) 2, pp. 510-524

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Informal (Field-Based) Learning

Tannenbaum, Scott I.; Wolfson, Mikhail A. - 2022

Most learning in the workplace occurs outside of formal learning environments—it happens informally, “in the field.” In … this review, we share what is known about how such informal field-based learning (IFBL) works, offer guidance on how to … promote healthy IFBL, and identify future research needs. We first situate IFBL within the broader stream of the learning …

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Cognitive ability and perceived disagreement in learning

Evdokimov, Piotr; Garfagnini, Umberto - 2023

disagreement regardless of cognitive ability. Learning about the state of the world has little effect on the evolution of perceived …

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Consumer-Optimal Disclosure With Costly Information Acquisition

Ichihashi, Shota - 2018

I study the question of how much product information should be available to consumers. A monopolist sells one unit of product. The consumer is initially uninformed of the product value but can incur costs to observe a noisy signal of his valuation. I show that consumer surplus can be increasing...

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Complementarities in information acquisition with short-term trades

Chamley, Christophe - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 2 (2007) 4, pp. 441-467

In a financial market where agents trade for short-term profit and where news can increase the uncertainty of the public belief, there are strategic complementarities in the acquisition of private information and, if the cost of information is sufficiently small, a continuum of equilibrium...

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The rewards of self-discovery : learning and firm exporter dynamics

Cebreros Zurita, Carlos Alfonso - 2016

trade, but their effectiveness crucially depends on the speed of learning. …

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The creation and diffusion of knowledge - an agent based modelling approach

De Albuquerque, Emmanuel P. - 2021

In this paper I propose a novel abstract mechanism for the creation and diffusion of knowledge and use an agent based modelling approach to explore it. The mechanism takes into account the relation between the phenomena that agents attempt to explain and the stocks of knowledge available in a...

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Leveraging Learning Behavior and Network Structure to Improve Knowledge Gatekeepers’ Performance

Albino, Vito - 2013

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how universities' learning behavior (explorative or exploitative … revealed that the universities' knowledge mobility is positively affected by both the explorative learning behavior and the … present research provides interesting implications. In fact, recognizing the importance of explorative learning mechanisms …

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Learning in Relational Contracts

Kostadinov, Rumen - 2018

We study relational contracts in a firm-worker relationship with mutual uncertainty about match quality. The worker's actions are publicly observed and generate output, and hence information about the match quality. Despite the absence of private information, uncertainty about match quality...

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