Anderlini, Luca and Felli, Leonardo (1993) Incomplete written contracts: undescribable states of nature. TE/1993/263. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
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This paper extends the classic two-armed bandit problem to a many-agent setting in which N players each face the same experimentation problem. The difference with the single-agent problem is that agents can now learn from the experiments of others. Thus, experiementation produces a public good and a free-rider problem in experimentation naturally arises. More interestingly, future experimentation by others encourages current individual experimentation. The paper provides an analysis of the set of Markov equilibria in terms of the free-rider effect and the encouragement effect.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Discussion Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/ |
| Additional Information: | © 1993 Luca Anderlini, Leonardo Felli |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor K Law > K Law (General) |
| Sets: | Research centres and groups > Financial Markets Group (FMG) Collections > Economists Online Research centres and groups > Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD) Departments > Economics Collections > LSE Financial Markets Group (FMG) Working Papers |
| Identification Number: | TE/1993/263 |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Feb 2008 |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/3603/ |
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