A simple approach to identifying the incentives for policy experimentation.

We present a simple concavity condition that describes the incentives for a policy maker to pursue policy experiments. Our approach avoids the computational cost of numerical methods that fully characterise optimal experimentation under learning.

Opis bibliograficzny
Główni autorzy: Ellison, M, Vilmunen, J
Format: Journal article
Język:English
Wydane: Elsevier 2005
Opis
Streszczenie:We present a simple concavity condition that describes the incentives for a policy maker to pursue policy experiments. Our approach avoids the computational cost of numerical methods that fully characterise optimal experimentation under learning.