2 papers
econ.TH2024
Long run consequence of p-hacking
Xuanye Wang
We study the theoretical consequence of p-hacking on the accumulation of knowledge under the framework of mis-specified Bayesian learning. A sequence of researchers, in turn, choos…
econ.TH2021
Fragility of Confounded Learning
Xuanye Wang
We consider an observational learning model with exogenous public payoff shock. We show that confounded learning doesn't arise for almost all private signals and almost all shocks,…