The Sound of Silence: Observational Learning in the Us Kidney Market.

Mere observation of others' choices can be informative about product quality. This paper develops an individual-level dynamic model of observational learning and applies it to a novel data set from the U.S. kidney market, where transplant candidates on a waiting list sequentially decide whether...

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Main Author: Zhang, Juanjuan (Contributor)
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, 2011-12-16T19:47:45Z.
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