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. The results show that reinforcement learning leads to dynamics similar to those observed in standard public goods games … explained by reinforcement learning. According to our estimates, learning only accounts for 41 percent of the decay in …, differ strongly from the learning dynamics, while a learning model estimated from the limited information treatment tracks …
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This paper studies a game of strategic experimentation with two-armed bandits whose risky arm might yield a payoff only after some exponentially distributed random time. Because of free-riding, there is an inefficiently low level of experimentation in any equilibrium where the players use...
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We build a model studying the effect of an economy's potential for social learning on the adoption of innovations of … qualitative and quantitative features of the learning environment affect equilibrium adoption dynamics, welfare, and the speed of … learning. Based on this, we show how differences in the learning environment translate into observable differences in adoption …
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We experimentally implement a dynamic public-good problem, where the public good in question is the dynamically evolving information about agents' common state of the world. Subjects' behavior is consistent with free-riding because of strategic concerns. We also find that subjects adopt more...
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forward-looking, their incentive to wait and see other agents' experiences poses a significant obstacle to social learning. We …
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We develop a dynamic framework of strategic information transmission through cheap talk in a social network. Privately informed agents have different preferences about the action to be implemented by each agent and repeatedly communicate with their neighbors in the network. We first characterize...
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forces of (a) learning about the benefits of reputation, and (b) learning about backward unraveling. We find, inter alia …
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This paper studies a game of strategic experimentation in which the players have access to two-armed bandits where the risky arm distributes lumpsum payoffs according to a Poisson process with unknown intensity. Because of free-riding, there is an inefficiently low level of experimentation in...
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This paper develops a theoretical model based on theories of equilibrium selection in order to predict success rates in threshold public goods games, i.e., the probability with which a group of players provides enough contribution in sum to exceed a predefined threshold value. For this purpose,...
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I examine the generalizability of a broad range of prominent learning models in explaining contribution patterns in … learning models in terms of how accurately they describe individuals' round-by-round choices. The experimental data are split … game strategies. Both ex-post descriptive fit of learning models and their ex-ante predictive accuracy are examined. The …
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