Professor Yaw Nyarko
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The Returns to the Brain Drain and Brain Circulation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Some Computations Using Data from Ghana
BBC interview on the Millennium Development Goals at 05:00 GMT on the 20th of September, 2010.
Most games violate the common priors doctrine.
United Arab Emirates Success Story.
"EU Policies and African Human Capital Development" prepared for the European Report on Development.
"Interview on effects of Financial Crisis on Africa with Columbia student group"
"Is brain drain good for Africa?" joint with William Easterly
Brookings Working paper
"On the Informational Content of Advice: A Theoretical and Experimental Study" joint with Andrew Schotter and Barry Sopher (Economic Theory, 2006)
"An Experimental Study of Belief Learning Using Real Beliefs," joint with Andy Schotter (Econometrica, 2002)
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"Comparing Learning Models With Ideal Micro-Experimental Data Sets", joint with Andy Schotter
"Learning, Quantal Response Equilibrium and Equilibrium in Beliefs "
"The Truth is in the Eye of the Beholder: or Equilibrium in Beliefs and Rational Learning in
Games "
"The Private University and African Economic Development "
(This is the paper I presented at the Yale YCIAS/Economic Growth Center
Conference on International Higher Education and African Development, October
2001.)
"On Caracterizing Optimality of Stochastic Competitive Processes", (JET 1988)
"Optimal Bayesian Control of a Nonlinear Regression Process with Unknown Parameters,
"Stochastic Growth When Utility Depends on Both Consumption and the Stock Level", Joint with Lars J. Olson
"Dynamic Optimization Under Uncertainty: Non-convex Feasible Set", Joint with M. Majumdar and T. Mitra
"Optimal Growth with Unobservable Resources and Learning", Joint with Lars Olson
"The transfer of human capital", Joint with Jovanovic
"Optimal Control of an Unknown Linear Process with Learning", Joint with N Kiefer
"On the Convexity of the Value Function in Bayesian Optimal Control Problems",
"Bayesian Learning Leads to Correlated Equilibria in Normal Form Games",
"On the convergence of Bayesian posterior processes in linear economic models",
"A Bayesian Learning Model Fitted to a Variety of Empirical Learning Curves", Joint with B Jovanovic
"Savage-Bayesian Models of Economics", Joint with M Kiefer