at the party level is inversely correlated with uncertainty-based measures of electoral competition, suggesting that … movements in long run ENP closer to 2 are an indicator of more rather than less electoral competition. …

This exercise offers an innovative learning mechanism to model economic agent's decision-making process using a deep … reinforcement learning algorithm. In particular, this AI agent is born in an economic environment with no information on the … adjusting its actions accordingly (i.e., online learning). I illustrate that the economic agent under deep reinforcement …

The paper investigates social-learning when the information structure is not commonly known. Individuals repeatedly … interact in social-learning settings with distinct information structures. In each round of interaction, they use their … behavior in the long-run if and only if individuals distinguish social-learning settings and receive rich feedback after each …

demand. The former learning effect, combined with the latter real-options effect, adversely affect firms' entry decisions and …

We experimentally study settings where an individual may have an incentive to adopt negative beliefs about another … engaging in "strategic cynicism," convincing themselves of the opponent's ill intentions. We elicit incentivized beliefs both … from players with such an incentive and from neutral third parties with no incentive to bias their beliefs. We find no …