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Eductive stability may not imply evolutionary stability in the presence of information costs

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  • Naimzada, Ahmad
  • Pireddu, Marina

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Founded on a Muthian cobweb model, this study extends the evolutionary setting in Hommes and Wagener (2010), by assuming that agents face heterogeneous information costs. We prove that the equilibrium, when globally eductively stable, may be unstable under evolutionary learning.

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  • Naimzada, Ahmad & Pireddu, Marina, 2020. "Eductive stability may not imply evolutionary stability in the presence of information costs," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 186(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:186:y:2020:i:c:s0165176519302381
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2019.06.019
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    1. Naimzada, Ahmad & Pireddu, Marina, 2020. "Eductive stability may not imply evolutionary stability in the presence of information costs," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 186(C).
    2. Ahmad Naimzada & Marina Pireddu, 2021. "The opposite effect of rational expectations and differentiated information costs for heterogeneous fundamentalists on the stability of an evolutive Muthian cobweb model," Working Papers 460, University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Economics, revised Dec 2021.
    3. Naimzada, Ahmad & Pireddu, Marina, 2020. "Rational expectations (may) lead to complex dynamics in a Muthian cobweb model with heterogeneous agents," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 177(C), pages 415-432.

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    Keywords

    Muthian cobweb model; Heterogeneous agents; Evolutionary learning; Eductive stability; Information costs; Double stability threshold;
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    JEL classification:

    • B52 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary; Modern Monetary Theory;
    • C62 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Existence and Stability Conditions of Equilibrium
    • D84 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Expectations; Speculations
    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles

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