Social learning in one-arm bandit problems

Econometrica

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1591-1611

  Rosenberg, Dinah ^a,b   Solan, Eilon ^c   Vieille, Nicolas ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^b ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d HEC PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Cutoff strategies; Equilibrium; One arm bandit; Social learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 35448952271     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: 14680262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0262.2007.00807.x     Document Type: Article

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