This paper begins with a distinction between an "active-learning" framework and a "passive-learning" approach when employed as an evaluation of R D strategies. A simple decision-tree formulation is employed to gain insights on the essential differences of these two approaches. Numerical...

This report summarizes preliminary findings of the Mexican National Database and Community Survey Project which examines linkages between institutional characteristics in Mexico’s common property forestry sector and economic and environmental outcomes. Framing the Mexican agrarian...

This paper studies a class of information aggregation models which we call “aggregation games.†It departs from the related literature in two main respects: information is aggregated by averaging rather than majority rule, and each player selects from a continuum of reports rather than...