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Cognitive Economics is the economics of what is in people's minds. It is a vibrant area of research (much of it within Behavioral Economics, Labor Economics and the Economics of Education) that brings into play novel types of data—especially novel types of survey data. Such data highlight the...
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This paper develops a theory of expectations-driven business cycles based on learning. Agents have incomplete knowledge … dynamics in beliefs being themselves persistent and because they generate strong intertemporal substitution effects in …
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We analyze the behavior of game-show contestants who play a one-shot game called Friend or Foe. While it is a weakly dominant strategy not to cooperate, almost half the contestants on the show choose to play friend.' Remarkably, the behavior of contestants remains unchanged even when stakes are...
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the whole, inconsistent with Bayesian updating. We embed the empirical evidence on expectations and learning into a model … of search on- and off- the job with learning, and show that it is far better able to fit the data on reservation wages … by the presence of learning …
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later. Delayed overshooting results from (a) the interaction of learning about the current state of affairs, and the … learning with some delay …
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decision theory to characterize when learning or discriminating among competing probability models is challenging. I also use … choice theory under uncertainty to explore the ramifications of model uncertainty and learning in environments in which … pricing; and I show that when real time learning is included risk premia are larger when macroeconomic growth is lower than …
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We explore the impact of violence on perceived prospects of upward mobility. For a sample of victims of violence in Colombia, we bring together data on expected upward mobility, exposure to violence, and symptoms of psychological trauma. After controlling for material losses and current...
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This paper presents a dynamic equilibrium model of bond markets, in which two groups of agents hold heterogeneous expectations about future economic conditions. Our model shows that heterogeneous expectations can not only lead to speculative trading, but can also help resolve several challenges...
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expectations with less naïve learning rules. Our results suggest that fast and frugal robust heuristics may not be a second …
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student ability distribution and across region, with the most pronounced increases in competition being found among higher … in response to the growth in competition. We also discuss the theoretical implications of increased competition on longer …-term measures of learning and achievement and attempt to test them empirically; the evidence and related literature, while limited …
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