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.

Bibliografiska uppgifter
Huvudupphovsmän: Ellison, M, Vilmunen, J
Materialtyp: Journal article
Språk:English
Publicerad: Elsevier 2005
Beskrivning
Sammanfattning: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.