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We study a continuous-time game of strategic experimentation in which the players try to assess the failure rate of some new equipment or technology. Breakdowns occur at the jump times of a Poisson process whose unknown intensity is either high or low. In marked contrast to existing models, we find that the cooperative value function does not exhibit smooth pasting at the efficient cut-off belief. This finding extends to the boundaries between continuation and stopping regions in Markov perfect equilibria. We characterize the unique symmetric equilibrium, construct a class of asymmetric equilibria, and elucidate the impact of bad versus good Poisson news on equilibrium outcomes.
- University of Oxford
- University Of Oxford
- Department of Economics Indonesia
- Department of Economics Switzerland
- University of Bonn Germany
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two-armed bandit, 330, Strategic Experimentation; Two-Armed Bandit; Bayesian Learning; Poisson Process; Piecewise Deterministic Process; Markov Perfect Equilibrium; Differential-Difference Equation; Smooth Pasting; Continuous Pasting, continuous pasting, Differential-Difference Equation, Strategic experimentation, two-armed bandit, Bayesian learning, Poisson process, piecewise deterministic process, Markov perfect equilibrium, differential-difference equation, smooth pasting, continuous pasting, C73, Strategic Experimentation, smooth pasting, Smooth Pasting, Markov Perfect Equilibrium, O32, Bayesian learning, ddc:330, differential-difference equation, Bayesian Learning, Strategic experimentation, Piecewise Deterministic Process, Poisson process, Two-Armed Bandit, Poisson Process, D83, piecewise deterministic process, Markov perfect equilibrium, Continuous Pasting, Strategic Experimentation, Two-Armed Bandit, Bayesian Learning, Poisson Process, Piecewise Deterministic Process, Markov Perfect Equilibrium, Differential-Difference Equation, Smooth Pasting, Continuous Pasting, jel: jel:D83, jel: jel:C73, jel: jel:O32
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