We use an experiment to explore how subjects learn to play against computers which are programmed to follow one of a number of standard learning algorithms. The learning theories are (unbeknown to subjects) a best response process, fictitious play, imitation, reinforcement learning, and a trial...

We introduce a generalized theoretical approach to study imitation and subject it to rigorous experimental testing. In our theoretical analysis we find that the different predictions of previous imitation models are due to different informational assumptions, not to different behavioral rules....

While some credit booms are followed by economic underperformance, many are not. Can lending standards help separate good credit booms from bad credit booms contemporaneously? To observe lending standards internationally, I use information from primary debt capital markets. I construct the...

Privatanlegern erschien die Finanzkrise von 2008 noch als kurzer Schneesturm, der bald vorüber sein würde. Doch mittlerweile ist die gesamte Weltwirtschaft erstarrt. Mit negativen Konsequenzen für unsere Privatvermögen, die langsam, aber sicher schrumpfen. Was können wir tun, um unser Geld...