Strategic experimentation in queues

DOI10.3982/TE1796MaRDI QIDQ5225087zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Caroline D. Thomas, Martin W. Cripps

Publication date 19 July 2019

Published in Theoretical Economics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

zbMATH Keywords

bandit problemsexperimentationqueuessocial learningherding

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Queues and service in operations research (90B22) Experimental studies (91A90) Rationality and learning in game theory (91A26)

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