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Strategic Observational Learning

Theoretical Economics 2023-01-09 v2

Abstract

We study learning by privately informed forward-looking agents in a simple repeated-action setting of social learning. Under a symmetric signal structure, forward-looking agents behave myopically for any degrees of patience. Myopic equilibrium is unique in the class of symmetric threshold strategies, and the simplest symmetric non-monotonic strategies. If the signal structure is asymmetric and the game is infinite, there is no equilibrium in myopic strategies, for any positive degree of patience.

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@article{arxiv.2212.09889,
  title  = {Strategic Observational Learning},
  author = {Dimitri Migrow},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.09889},
  year   = {2023}
}
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