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.

Detaylı Bibliyografya
Asıl Yazarlar: Ellison, M, Vilmunen, J
Materyal Türü: Journal article
Dil:English
Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Elsevier 2005
Diğer Bilgiler
Özet: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.