Strategic Experimentation with Exponential Bandits.

This paper studies a game of strategic experimentation with two-armed bandits whose risky arm might yield a payoff only after some exponentially distributed random time. Because of free-riding, there is an inefficiently low level of experimentation in any equilibrium where the players use stationary...

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Main Authors: Cripps, M, Keller, G, Rady, S
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: Department of Economics (University of Oxford) 2003