Berk–Nash equilibrium: A framework for modeling agents with misspecified models

I Esponda, D Pouzo - Econometrica, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We develop an equilibrium framework that relaxes the standard assumption that people
have a correctly specified view of their environment. Each player is characterized by a …

Frontiers: Algorithmic collusion: Supra-competitive prices via independent algorithms

KT Hansen, K Misra, MM Pai - Marketing Science, 2021 - pubsonline.informs.org
Motivated by their increasing prevalence, we study outcomes when competing sellers use
machine learning algorithms to run real-time dynamic price experiments. These algorithms …

Selective attention and learning

J Schwartzstein - Journal of the European Economic Association, 2014 - academic.oup.com
What do we notice and how does this affect what we learn and come to believe? I present a
model of an agent who learns to make forecasts on the basis of readily available …

Real effects of search frictions in consumer credit markets

B Argyle, T Nadauld, C Palmer - The Review of Financial Studies, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We show that search frictions in credit markets affect accepted interest rates and loan sizes
and distort consumption. Using data on car loan applications and originations not …

Competing models

JL Montiel Olea, P Ortoleva, MM Pai… - The Quarterly Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Different agents need to make a prediction. They observe identical data, but have different
models: they predict using different explanatory variables. We study which agent believes …

Asymptotic behavior of Bayesian learners with misspecified models

I Esponda, D Pouzo, Y Yamamoto - Journal of Economic Theory, 2021 - Elsevier
We consider an agent who represents uncertainty about the environment via a possibly
misspecified model. Each period, the agent takes an action, observes a consequence, and …

Decision makers as statisticians: Diversity, ambiguity, and learning

NI Al‐Najjar - Econometrica, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
I study individuals who use frequentist models to draw uniform inferences from independent
and identically distributed data. The main contribution of this paper is to show that distinct …

Merge or separate? Multi-job scheduling for OpenCL kernels on CPU/GPU platforms

Y Wen, MFP O'Boyle - Proceedings of the general purpose GPUs, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Computer systems are increasingly heterogeneous with nodes consisting of CPUs and GPU
accelerators. As such systems become mainstream, they move away from specialized high …

Mental health stigma

P Bharadwaj, MM Pai, A Suziedelyte - 2015 - nber.org
Comparing self-reports to administrative data records on diagnosis and prescription drug
use, we find that survey respondents under-report mental health conditions 36% of the time …

Optimal categorization

E Mohlin - Journal of Economic Theory, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper studies categorizations that are optimal for the purpose of making predictions. A
subject encounters an object (x, y). She observes the first component, x, and has to predict …