Informational asymmetries and observational learning in search

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 241-259

  Einav, Liran ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Experiment; Learning; Regret; Search

Indexed keywords

EID: 21644434720     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11166-005-6563-7     Document Type: Article

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