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Bruce Preston: Learning Dynamics and Monetary Policy.

INEXC-Conference : International Network on Expectational Cordination. Thursday 28th June. Collège de France, 3 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris Click here to see the video

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Mike Woodford: Rational Inattention and Coordination.

INEXC-Conference : International Network on Expectational Cordination. Friday 29th June. Collège de France, 11 Place Marcelin Berthelot, 75005 Paris. Click here to see the video

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Executive Compensation and Short-Termist Behaviour in Speculative Markets

Publication by Jose Scheinkman, Patrick Bolton and Wei Xiong

We present a multiperiod agency model of stock-based executive compensation in a speculative stock market, where investors have heterogeneous beliefs and stock prices may deviate [...]

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Adaptive Learning and the Use of Forecasts in Monetary Policy

Publication by Bruce Preston

This paper investigates monetarypolicy design when central bank and private-sector expectations differ. Private agents learn adaptively; the central bank has a possibly misspecified model of [...]

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Optimal Monetary Policy Rules in an Estimated Sticky-Information Model

Publication by Ricardo Reis

This paper uses a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model with sticky information as a laboratory to study monetary policy. It characterizes the model’s predictions [...]

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Inattentive consumers

Publication by Ricardo Reis

This paper studies the consumption decisions of agents who face costs of acquiring, absorbing and processing information. These consumers rationally choose to only sporadically update [...]

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Optimal Monetary Stabilization Policy

Publication by Michael Woodford

This paper reviews the theory of optimal monetary stabilization policy, with an emphasis on developments since the publication of Woodford (2003). The structure of optimal [...]

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Testing working paper

Working Paper by Patrick Bolton

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Strategic Experimentation

Publication by Christopher Harris and Patrick Bolton

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 [...]

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Complexity, Bounded rationality and Heuristic Search

Publication by W. Bentley MacLeod

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