Empirical models, rules, and optimization: turning positive economics on its head

This paper considers supply decisions by firms in a dynamic setting with adjustment costs and compares the behavior of an optimal control model to that of a rule-based system which relaxes the assumption that agents are explicit optimizers. In our approach, the economic agent uses believably simple...

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Main Authors: Cattaneo, Andrea, Robinson, Sherman
Format: Artículo preliminar
Language:Inglés
Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 2000
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155795

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