The Role of Information in Competitive Experimentation
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- Ufuk Akcigit & Qingmin Liu, 2011. "The Role of Information in Competitive Experimentation," NBER Working Papers 17602, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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Keywords
Learning; Two-arm Bandit; R&D Competition; Dead-end Inefficiency; Trial-and-error;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
- D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
- D92 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Intertemporal Firm Choice, Investment, Capacity, and Financing
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CTA-2011-12-19 (Contract Theory and Applications)
- NEP-INO-2011-12-19 (Innovation)
- NEP-MIC-2011-12-19 (Microeconomics)
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