Review Article

Self-Confirming Biased Beliefs in Organizational “Learning by Doing”

Table 2

Model parameters.

ParameterDefinitionPossible valuesSampled space

mThe number of alternativesPositive integer50
TLearning periodPositive integer1∼100,000
τDegree of explorationReal number (0, ∞)Baseline case: 0 exploration: 0.01∼1
NThe number of agentsPositive integerBaseline case: 1 social learning: 2 larger systems: 1∼15
γThe degree of responsivenessReal number (−∞, ∞)Investment task: 0.1 depletion task: −0.1