Learning-by-doing, organizational forgetting, and industry dynamics

Econometrica

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 453-508

  Besanko, David ^a   Doraszelski, Ulrich ^b   Kryukov, Yaroslav ^c   Satterthwaite, Mark ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic stochastic games; Industry dynamics; Learning by doing; Markov perfect equilibrium; Multiple equilibria; Organizational forgetting

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953896486     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: 14680262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/ECTA6994     Document Type: Article

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