Strategic experimentation with Poisson bandits

G Keller, S Rady - Theoretical Economics, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
We study a game of strategic experimentation with two‐armed bandits where the risky arm
distributes lump‐sum payoffs according to a Poisson process. Its intensity is either high or …

Dynamic delegation of experimentation

Y Guo - American Economic Review, 2016 - aeaweb.org
I study a dynamic relationship where a principal delegates experimentation to an agent.
Experimentation is modeled as a one-armed bandit that yields successes following a …

Learning, experimentation and information design

J Hörner, A Skrzypacz - Advances in Economics and …, 2017 - books.google.com
The purpose of this paper is to survey recent developments in a literature that combines
ideas from experimentation, learning, and strategic interactions. Because this literature is …

Breakdowns

G Keller, S Rady - Theoretical Economics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We study a continuous‐time game of strategic experimentation in which the players try to
assess the failure rate of some new equipment or technology. Breakdowns occur at the jump …

Dynamic learning of patient response types: An application to treating chronic diseases

DM Negoescu, K Bimpikis, ML Brandeau… - Management …, 2018 - pubsonline.informs.org
Currently available medication for treating many chronic diseases is often effective only for a
subgroup of patients, and biomarkers accurately assessing whether an individual belongs to …

Discounting, values, and decisions

JKH Quah, B Strulovici - Journal of Political Economy, 2013 - journals.uchicago.edu
How do discount rates affect agents' decisions and valuations? This paper provides a
general method to analyze this question, allowing stochastic and managed cash flows …

Overcoming free-riding in bandit games

J Hörner, N Klein, S Rady - The Review of Economic Studies, 2022 - academic.oup.com
This article considers a class of experimentation games with Lévy bandits encompassing
those of Bolton and Harris (1999, Econometrica, 67, 349–374) and Keller, Rady, and Cripps …

Strategic learning in teams

N Klein - Games and Economic Behavior, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper analyzes a two-player game of strategic experimentation with three-armed
exponential bandits in continuous time. Players play bandits of identical types, with one arm …

[PDF][PDF] Assortative learning

J Eeckhout, X Weng - WPU Pennsylvania, 2010 - bse.eu
Because of sorting, more skilled workers are more productive in higher type firms. They also
learn at different rates about their productivity and therefore expect different wage paths …

Transmission mode selection for network-assisted device to device communication: A levy-bandit approach

S Maghsudi, S Stańczak - 2014 IEEE International Conference …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies device-to-device (D2D) communication underlaying cellular
infrastructure, where each device pair is provided with two transmission modes: indirect and …