Learning in a Bandit Game and Technology Choice
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Keywords
Bandit Games; Technology Choice; Field Experiment;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C90 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - General
- O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
- Q16 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - R&D; Agricultural Technology; Biofuels; Agricultural Extension Services
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