Competitive experimentation with private information: The survivor's curse

Journal of Economic Theory

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 639-660

  Moscarini, Giuseppe ^a   Squintani, Francesco ^b,c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Experimentation; Learning; Private information; Survivor's curse

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949486132     PISSN: 00220531     EISSN: 10957235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2009.12.001     Document Type: Article

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