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Two Competing Models of How People Learn in Games by Hopkins, Ed

“…Reinforcement learning and stochastic fictitious play are apparent rivals as models of human learning. They embody quite different assumptions about the…”
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Long-term ice phenology records spanning up to 578 years for 78 lakes around the Northern Hemisphere by Sharma, Sapna, Filazzola, Alessandro, Nguyen, Thi, Imrit, M. Arshad, Blagrave, Kevin, Bouffard, Damien, Daly, Julia, Feldman, Harley, Feldsine, Natalie, Hendricks-Franssen, Harrie-Jan, Granin, Nikolay, Hecock, Richard, L’Abée-Lund, Jan Henning, Hopkins, Ed, Howk, Neil, Iacono, Michael, Knoll, Lesley B., Korhonen, Johanna, Malmquist, Hilmar J., Marszelewski, Włodzimierz, Matsuzaki, Shin-Ichiro S., Miyabara, Yuichi, Miyasaka, Kiyoshi, Mills, Alexander, Olson, Lolita, Peters, Theodore W., Richardson, David C., Robertson, Dale M., Rudstam, Lars, Wain, Danielle, Waterfield, Holly, Weyhenmeyer, Gesa A., Wiltse, Brendan, Yao, Huaxia, Zhdanov, Andry, Magnuson, John J.

“…In recent decades, lakes have experienced unprecedented ice loss with widespread ramifications for winter ecological processes. The rapid loss of ice,…”
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Cardinal Sins? Conspicuous Consumption, Cardinal Status and Inequality by Hopkins, Ed

“…Abstract This paper analyzes the social dilemma arising when a large population of individuals with differing incomes have concerns over relative deprivation…”
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Is everything relative? A survey of the theory of matching tournaments by Hopkins, Ed

“…This paper surveys the theory of matching tournaments, and shows how they can be used to understand how the social environment influences economic decision…”
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Author Correction: Long-term ice phenology records spanning up to 578 years for 78 lakes around the Northern Hemisphere by Sharma, Sapna, Filazzola, Alessandro, Nguyen, Thi, Imrit, M. Arshad, Blagrave, Kevin, Bouffard, Damien, Daly, Julia, Feldman, Harley, Feldsine, Natalie, Hendricks-Franssen, Harrie-Jan, Granin, Nikolay, Hecock, Richard, L’Abée-Lund, Jan Henning, Hopkins, Ed, Howk, Neil, Iacono, Michael, Knoll, Lesley B., Korhonen, Johanna, Malmquist, Hilmar J., Marszelewski, Włodzimierz, Matsuzaki, Shin-Ichiro S., Miyabara, Yuichi, Miyasaka, Kiyoshi, Mills, Alexander, Olson, Lolita, Peters, Theodore W., Richardson, David C., Robertson, Dale M., Rudstam, Lars, Wain, Danielle, Waterfield, Holly, Weyhenmeyer, Gesa A., Wiltse, Brendan, Yao, Huaxia, Zhdanov, Andry, Magnuson, John J.

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Inequality and risk-taking behaviour by Hopkins, Ed

“…This paper investigates social influences on attitudes to risk and reanalyses how risk taking varies with relative position and inequality. Individuals with…”
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Marriage as a rat race: Noisy premarital investments with assortative matching by Bhaskar, V, Hopkins, Ed

“…We study the efficiency of premarital investments when parents care about their child’s marriage prospects, in a large frictionless marriage market with…”
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Lone wolf or herd animal? Information choice and learning from others by Duffy, John, Hopkins, Ed, Kornienko, Tatiana

“…We report on an experiment that distinguishes between rational social learning and behavioral information source bias. Subjects are asked to correctly guess…”
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The Stability of Price Dispersion under Seller and Consumer Learning by Hopkins, Ed, Seymour, Robert M.

“…In many markets, it is possible to find rival sellers charging different prices for the same good. Earlier research has attempted to explain this phenomenon by…”
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Competitive Altruism, Mentalizing, and Signaling by Hopkins, Ed

“…One explanation of altruism is that it arises from "mentalizing," the process of understanding the mental states of others. Another is based on sexual…”
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Inequality, happiness and relative concerns: What actually is their relationship? by Hopkins, Ed

“…This paper briefly and informally surveys different theoretical models of relative concerns and their relation to inequality. Models of inequity aversion in…”
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Job market signaling of relative position, or Becker married to Spence by Hopkins, Ed

“…"This paper considers a matching model of the labor market where workers, who have private information on their quality, signal to firms that also differ in…”
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Running to Keep in the Same Place: Consumer Choice as a Game of Status by Hopkins, Ed, Kornienko, Tatiana

“…If individuals care about their status, defined as their rank in the distribution of consumption of one "positional" good, then the consumer's problem is…”
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Information choice in a social learning experiment by Duffy, John, Hopkins, Ed, Kornienko, Tatiana, Ma, Mingye

“…We document heterogeneity of rationality and bias in information acquisition in a social learning experiment, where subjects, prior to guessing an unknown…”
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Which Inequality? The Inequality of Endowments versus the Inequality of Rewards by Hopkins, Ed, Kornienko, Tatiana

“…We introduce a new distinction between inequality in initial endowments (e.g., ability, inherited wealth) and inequality of what one can obtain as rewards…”
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Status, affluence, and inequality: Rank-based comparisons in games of status by Hopkins, Ed, Kornienko, Tatiana

“…We examine the effects of changes in the income distribution in an economy where agents' utility depends both on consumption and on their rank in the…”
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Cycles and Instability in a Rock-Paper-Scissors Population Game: A Continuous Time Experiment by CASON, TIMOTHY N., FRIEDMAN, DANIEL, HOPKINS, ED

“…We report laboratory experiments that use new, visually oriented software to explore the dynamics of 3 × 3 games with intransitive best responses. Each moment,…”
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Adaptive learning models of consumer behavior by Hopkins, Ed

“…In a model of dynamic duopoly, optimal price policies are characterized assuming consumers learn adaptively about the relative quality of the two products. A…”
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A Note on Best Response Dynamics by Hopkins, Ed

“…We investigate the relationship between the continuous time best response dynamic, its perturbed version, and evolutionary dynamics in relation to mixed…”
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Learning in games with unstable equilibria by Benaïm, Michel, Hofbauer, Josef, Hopkins, Ed

“…We propose a new concept for the analysis of games, the TASP, which gives a precise prediction about non-equilibrium play in games whose Nash equilibria are…”
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