Breakdowns

Theoretical Economics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 175-202

  Keller, Godfrey ^a   Rady, Sven ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bayesian Learning; Continuous Pasting; Differential Difference Equation; Markov Perfect Equilibrium; Piecewise Deterministic Process; Poisson Process; Smooth Pasting; StratEgic Experimentation; Two Armed Bandit

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924034540     PISSN: 19336837     EISSN: 15557561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/TE1670     Document Type: Article

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