3 papers
econ.TH2026
Course design in the age of AI
Benjamin Davies
I develop a model of learning-by-doing and course design, and use it to study the impacts of artificial intelligence (AI). A myopic student faces a sequence of tasks that he can wo…
econ.TH2026
Persistence, patience and costly information acquisition
Benjamin Davies
A forward-looking agent observes signals of a state that follows a Gaussian AR(1) process. He balances the cost of having imprecise beliefs with the cost of acquiring more precise…
econ.TH2022
Why do experts give simple advice?
Benjamin Davies
An expert tells an advisee whether to take an action that may be good or bad. He may provide a condition under which to take the action. This condition predicts whether the action…