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We study the informational role of prices in a stochastic environment. We provide a closed-form solution of the monopoly problem when the price imperfectly signals quality to the uninformed buyers. We then study the effect of noise on output, market price, information flows, and expected...
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We present a diagrammatic and step-by-step analysis of price signaling quality. Because quality is a continuum on the real positive line, out-of-equilibrium beliefs need not be specified, i.e., every positive price is a positive outcome in equilibrium. We first study the behavior of the monopoly...
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We study the informational role of prices in a stochastic environment. We provide a closed-form solution of the monopoly problem when the price imperfectly signals quality to the uninformed buyers. We then study the effect of noise on output, market price, information flows, and expected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010729770
We study investment and consumption decisions in a dynamic game under learning. To that end, we present a model in … assumption of adaptive learning) is generally intractable, we characterize the unique symmetric Bayesian-learning recursive … limits of the equilibrium outcomes for a finite horizon exist. The addition of learning to a stochastic environment is shown …
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We characterize the class of symmetric two-player games in which tit-for-tat cannot be beaten even by very sophisticated opponents in a repeated game. It turns out to be the class of exact potential games. More generally, there is a class of simple imitation rules that includes tit-for-tat but...
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We show that for many classes of symmetric two-player games, the simple decision rule “imitate-if-better” can hardly be beaten by any strategy. We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for imitation to be unbeatable in the sense that there is no strategy that can exploit imitation as a...
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We embed learning (without experimentation) in optimal growth. We extend the Mirman-Zilcha results of stochastic … optimal growth to the learning case. We use recursive methods to study the effect of learning on the dynamic program by …
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We address the issue of risk aversion in a competitive equilibrium when some buyers engage in learning and information … is conveyed through the price system. Specifically, since the learning process yields uncertainty, we study the effect of …
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We embed signaling in the classical Cournot model in which several firms sell a homogeneous good. The quality is known to all the firms, but only to some buyers. The quantity-setting firms can manipulate the price to signal quality. Because there is only one price in a market for a homogeneous...
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We study learning in perfect competition. A representative price-taking firm sells a good whose quality is unknown to … the price, which, in turn, affects the competitive equilibrium through the learning process of the uninformed buyers. …
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