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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Public Signals"”.
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Aggregation and influence in teams of imperfect decision makers
… model with social learning, where agents observe public signals, which are decisions made by other agents. Since each agent affects the minimum possible Bayes risk for subsequent agents, she may have a mixed objective including her own Bayes risk and the Bayes risks of subsequent agents. For an …
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Bounded Rationality in Macroeconomics
… over the business cycle. Using data from US public firms’ regulatory filings and financial statements, we document that firms’ attention to macroeconomic conditions rises in downturns and that their propensity to make input-choice mistakes rises in booms. We explain these phenomena with a …
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African legislatures active in the budget process?! Emerging trends and consequences for legislative identity
… in the Southern Africa have made recent signals that they are becoming active in the budget process through the establishment of Budget Committees, Parliamentary Budget Offices, and Constituency Development Funds. These developments are surprising given the Westminster heritage of these …
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Dynamic global game coordination risks
… the dynamic global game model. First, we model public signals of the health of the project between all agents invested in it and show under certain conditions that positive public information of the project can decrease the projects chances of success. Second, we allow for agents to receive …
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Essays in economics
… that allows it to manipulate the mean of a public signal. Even though investors fully internalize the manipulation technology - which makes it hard for the government to "fool" them - and manipulation is costly, we show that it occurs in equilibrium. Our extensions reveal that higher …
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Networks, decisions, and outcomes : coordination with local information and the value of temporal data for learning influence networks
… in which agents have access to purely private or public signals. We then provide a characterization of how the extent of equilibrium multiplicity is determined by the extent to which subsets of agents have access to common information: we show that the size of the set of equilibrium strategies is …
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Incomplete information games of conflict and collective action
… receive conditionally-independent noisy private signals about the normally distributed stochastic payoffs. With this structure, each player can exploit the information contained in the other player's action only when he takes the “pivotalizing action”. This feature has two consequences: (1) When …