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A migration network is modeled as a mutually beneficial cooperative agreement between financially-constrained individuals who seek to finance and expedite their migration. The cooperation agreement creates a network: "established" migrants contract to support the subsequent migration of others...
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This paper proposes a simple approach to recover cognitive attention costs in information processing from elicited … behave as if facing positive attention costs. The approach is validated using choice-process data which confirms that …
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A migration network is modeled as a mutually beneficial cooperative agreement between financially-constrained individuals who seek to finance and expedite their migration. The cooperation agreement creates a network: "established" migrants contract to support the subsequent migration of others...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009565687
-enforcing. -- efficiency ; communication ; coordination ; honesty ; evolutionary stability …
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We examine the effect of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) on the investment behavior of mutual fund managers. We show that managers who are more likely to be exposed to the ideas of EMH throughout their higher education are more “passive” than their unexposed peers: they are more likely...
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The notion of choice inconsistency is widely spread in the literature on behavioral economics. Several approaches were used to account for the observation that people reverse their choices over time. This paper aims to explain the formation of resolutions regarded as internal self-binding...
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If choices depend on the decision maker's mood, is the attempt to derive any consistency in choice doomed? In this …
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This paper analyzes a boundedly rational decision maker who is uncertain about his preference and faces the following …-off there is an optimal number of goods that the decision maker wants to analyze before making his final choice. The choice of … with good consumer service can be a signal for high quality of the store. -- Decision making ; Bounded rationality ; Choice …
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We investigate the possibility that a decision-maker prefers to avoid making a decision and instead delegates it to an …, which contradicts most theories of choice such as expected utility but is consistent with a theory of responsibility … pattern that is also consistent with this theory and entails substantial allocative consequences. …
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We investigate the possibility that a decision-maker prefers to avoid making a decision and instead delegates it to an … allocative consequences. The findings are consistent with our theory of responsibility aversion. …
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