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This paper studies dynamic price competition over two periods between two firms selling differentiated durable goods to two buyers who are privately informed about their types, but have valuations of the two goods dependent on the other buyer's type. The firms' pricing strategy in period 1 must...
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This paper presents an experiment on learning in repeated games, which complements the analysis of players' actual … choices with data on the information acquisition process they follow. Subjects play a repeated Cournot oligopoly, with limited … a priori information. The econometrics hinges on a model built upon Experience Weighted Attraction learning, and the …
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Despite widespread use in online transactions, rating systems only provide summary statistics of buyers' diverse opinions at best. To investigate the consequences of this coarse form of information aggregation, we consider a dynamic lemons market in which buyers share their evaluations...
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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 …
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We study learning by privately informed forward-looking agents in a simple repeated-action setting of social learning …
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We analyze a symmetric n-firm Cournot oligopoly with a heterogeneous population of optimizers and imitators. Imitators …
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experiments ; industrial organisation ; oligopoly ; price competition ; co-ordination games, learning …
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It is shown that the equilibrium notion of an evolutionary stable strategy (ESS) does have predictive power for standard models of Bertrand competition. This is in contrast to a recent claim by Qin and Stuart (1997). The claim is based on the observation that the solution concept ESS behaves...
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