Search Results - subject:"EXPERIMENTATION"

Fershtman, Daniel; Pavan, Alessandro - 2017

, learning through experimentation, or a preference for variety. The analysis uncovers the key tradeoffs that platforms face in …

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Learning to disagree in a game of experimentation

Bonatti, Alessandro; Hörner, Johannes - 2017

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Career concerns and market structure

Bonatti, Alessandro; Hörner, Johannes - 2017

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A war of attrition with experimenting players

Chen, Chia-hui; Ishida, Junichiro - 2017

A standard incomplete-information war of attrition is extended to incorporate experimentation and private learning. We …-run and long-run gains of experimentation. The extension yields qualitative impacts on the strategic nature of the problem …. The option value of experimentation serves as a credible commitment device to stay in the game, which is instrumental in …

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Dynamic performance evaluation with deadlines : the role of commitment

Chen, Chia-hui; Ishida, Junichiro - 2017

We consider an environment in which a principal hires an agent and evaluates his productivity over time in an ongoing relationship. The problem is embedded in a continuoustime model with both hidden action and hidden information, where the principal must induce the agent to exert effort to...

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The body divided : human beings and human 'material' in modern medical history

Ferber, Sarah (contributor) - 2011

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Posts as Trade Facilitators

Carballo, Jerónimo; Schaur, Georg; Volpe Martincus, … - 2016

with increased and more diversified regional exports, higher entry and exit rates, more export experimentation, and …

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Unraveling of cooperation in dynamic collaboration

Vasama, Suvi - 2016

We examine collaboration in a one-arm bandit problem in which the players' actions affect the distribution over future payoffs. The players need to exert costly effort both to enhance the value of a risky technology and to learn about its current state. Both product value and learning are public...

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The importance of being honest

Klein, Nicolas - In: Theoretical Economics 11 (2016) 3, pp. 773-811

This paper analyzes the case of a principal who wants to provide an agent with proper incentives to explore a hypothesis that can be either true or false. The agent can shirk, thus never proving the hypothesis, or he can avail himself of a known technology to produce fake successes. This latter...

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Freemium pricing: Evidence from a large-scale field experiment

Runge, Julian; Wagner, Stefan; Claussen, Jörg; … - 2016

Firms commonly run field experiments to improve their freemium pricing schemes. However, they often lack a framework for analysis that goes beyond directly measurable outcomes and focuses on longer term profit. We aim to fill this gap by structuring existing knowledge on freemium pricing into a...

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