Information redundancy neglect versus overconfidence: a social learning experiment

Marco Angrisani, Antonio Guarino, Philippe Jehiel () and Toru Kitagawa ()
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Toru Kitagawa: Institute for Fiscal Studies and University College London

No CWP63/18, CeMMAP working papers from Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice, Institute for Fiscal Studies

Abstract: We study social learning in a continuous action space experiment. Subjects, acting in sequence, state their belief about the value of a good, after observing their predecessors' statements and a private signal. We compare the behavior in the laboratory with the Perfect Bayesian Equilibrium prediction and the predictions of bounded rationality models of decision making: the redundancy of information neglect model and the overconfidence model. The results of our experiment are in line with the predictions of the overconfidence model and at odds with the others'.

Date: 2018-11-07
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