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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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We choose between alternatives without being fully informed about the rewards from different courses of action. In making our decisions, we use our own past experience and the experience of others. So the ways in which we interact - our social network - can influence our choices. These choices...
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The use of coarse categories is prevalent in various situations and has been linked to biased economic outcomes, ranging from discrimination against minorities to empirical anomalies in financial markets. In this paper we study economic rationales for categorizing coarsely. We think of the way...
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In a coordination game such as the Battle of the Sexes, agents can condition their plays on external signals that can … are rare. Thus, even in a world of simple learning agents, coordination behavior can take on some surprising forms. …
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This paper studies the interaction between coordination and social learning in a dynamic regime change game. Social … learning provides public information, to which players overreact due to the coordination motive. Coordination affects the … herding disappears, and thus coordination is almost surely successful …
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coordination problems. We conduct experiments under various conditions which control for salient labeling and learning dynamics …. Contrary to previous experiments, we find that coordination on non-empty Strict Nash equilibria is not an easy task for … significantly helps coordination, but only when subjects are pre-instructed to think of the wheel network as a reasonable way to …
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We study observational learning among agents with coordination motives. On a discrete time line, communities of agents … observations are correlated, coordination motives inevitably lead to herding even when private beliefs are unbounded; when …
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Learning is crucial to organizational decision making but often needs to be delegated. We examine a dynamic delegation problem where a principal decides on a project with uncertain profitability. A biased agent, who is initially as uninformed as the principal, privately learns the profitability...
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egocentric instead. Our results contribute to the understanding of coordination dynamics resting on heterogeneity and co …
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coordination device. The coordination power of sunspots has been analysed in theory and in experiments. However, some have … discussed whether sunspots, e.g., public announcements such as financial market ratings, can create coordination problems. That … forecast, trigger coordination problems? To answer that, we use a repeated three-player stag hunt game with fixed groups. In …
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