Estimating Bayesian Decision Problems with Heterogeneous Expertise
异质专业能力下的贝叶斯决策问题估计
We consider the recent novel two-step estimator of Iaryczower and Shum (American Economic Review 2012; 102: 202–237), who analyze voting decisions of US Supreme Court justices. Motivated by the underlying theoretical voting model, we suggest that where the data under consideration display variation in the common prior, estimates of the structural parameters based on their methodology should generally benefit from including interaction terms between individual and time…