Dynamic pricing and learning: historical origins, current research, and new directions

AV Den Boer - Surveys in operations research and management …, 2015 - Elsevier
The topic of dynamic pricing and learning has received a considerable amount of attention
in recent years, from different scientific communities. We survey these literature streams: we …

Learning from neighbours

V Bala, S Goyal - The review of economic studies, 1998 - academic.oup.com
When payoffs from different actions are unknown, agents use their own past experience as
well as the experience of their neighbours to guide their decision making. In this paper, we …

Strategic experimentation

P Bolton, C Harris - Econometrica, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
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 main change from the single …

When will workers follow an algorithm? A field experiment with a retail business

K Kawaguchi - Management Science, 2021 - pubsonline.informs.org
This paper develops a new algorithm for increasing the revenue in a dynamic product
assortment problem. Then, it identifies the challenges faced by managers in practice and …

Market diffusion with two-sided learning

D Bergemann, J Välimäki - The RAND Journal of Economics, 1997 - JSTOR
We analyze the diffusion of a new product of uncertain value in a duopolistic market. Both
sides of the market, buyers and sellers, learn the true value of the new product from …

A dynamic oligopoly structural model for the prescription drug market after patent expiration

AT Ching - International Economic Review, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
This article incorporates consumer learning and heterogeneity into a dynamic oligopoly
model for the prescription drug market. In the model, both firms and patients need to learn …

[PDF][PDF] Learning by trading: The case of the US market for municipal bonds

G Brancaccio, D Li, N Schürhoff - … paper. Princeton University, 2017 - giulia-brancaccio.com
We study information acquisition as a motive for trade in the market for municipal bonds, a
primary financing source for local governments. The market is decentralized and regional …

Product differentiation and location decisions under demand uncertainty

KJ Meagher, KG Zauner - Journal of Economic Theory, 2004 - Elsevier
We investigate Hotelling's duopoly game of location-then-price choices with quadratic
transportation costs and uniformly distributed consumers under the assumption that firms are …

Experimentation and learning in a differentiated-products duopoly

JJE Harrington - Journal of Economic Theory, 1995 - Elsevier
This paper explores price-setting behavior in the context of a duopoly in which firms are
uncertain about the degree of product differentiation. Firms learn from the difference in their …

On the correlation structure of microstructure noise: A financial economic approach

FX Diebold, G Strasser - Review of Economic Studies, 2013 - academic.oup.com
We introduce the financial economics of market microstructure to the financial econometrics
of asset return volatility estimation. In particular, we derive the cross-correlation function …