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learning and policy recommendation in advisory committees. We quantify the effectiveness of advisory panels, and evaluate …
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. Bayesian learning implies that beliefs about the likelihood of rare disasters drop to a much more pessimistic level once a … between rational and adaptive Bayesian learning. Rational learners account for the possibility of future changes in beliefs in …-valued and price-dividend ratios vary less under adaptive versus rational learning for identical priors. Keywords: beliefs …
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guess the degree of overall cooperation. We also find that the possibility to make announcements during the experiment …
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We consider a median voter model with uncertainty about how the economy functions. The distribution of income is exogenously given and the provision of a public good is financed through a proportional tax. Voters and politicians do not know the true production function for the public good, but...
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We conduct a laboratory experiment to compare the fairness and intensity of round-robin tournaments with three …
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This paper investigates the implications of different prize structures on effort provision in dynamic (two-stage) elimination contests. Theoretical results show that, for risk-neutral participants, a structure with a single prize for the winner of the contest maximizes total effort, while a...
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