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Using Japanese prefecture level data for the years between 1988 and 2001, this paper explores how and the extent to which social capital has an effect on the damage resulting from natural disasters. It also examines whether the experience of a natural disaster affects individual and collective...
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According to a wide literature persons are not able to evaluate their own skills and knowledge, but the discussion on the nature, extension and determinants of this phenomenon is still open. This paper aims at proposing new empirical evidence on overconfidence and its determinants, trying to...
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This paper presents an empirical micro-simulation model of the teaching and the testing process in the classroomH. It is a non-econometric micro-simulation model describing informational behaviors of the pupils, based on the observation of the pupils’ communication behavior during lessons and...
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, incentive mechanisms, repeated trials and learning. The hope is that increasing awareness on some sharing methodologies will …
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models of expectations formation that rely on econometric learning. Some apparently natural policy rules turn out to imply … expectational instability of private agents' learning. We use the standard New Keynesian model to illustrate this problem and survey … learning. We then consider some practical concerns such as measurement errors in private expectations, observability of …
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We develop a model in which an entrepreneur learns about the average profitability of a private firm before deciding whether to take the firm public. In this decision, the entrepreneur trades off diversification benefits of going public against benefits of private control. The model predicts...
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agents forecast using adaptive learning. Because of the zero lower bound on interest rates, active interest rate rules are … learning dynamics we find the additional possibility of a liquidity trap, in which the economy slips below this low inflation …
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Professional standards vary across professions and also change over time. One profession which has remained perfectionist is classical music, where the amount of practising is striking compared with other professions. Practising is a matter of increasing the reliability of ones skills rather...
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learning behaviour may in turn be responsible for unemployment. Our analysis shows how the process of information acquisition …
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uncertainty, that there is a learning cost associated with interest rate reversals. A policy that frequently reverses the interest … monetary policy internalizes this learning cost and therefore has a lower number of interest rate reversals. The incentive to …
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