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There are many situations in which individuals have a choice of whether or not to observe eventual outcomes. In these instances, individuals often prefer to remain ignorant. These contexts are outside the scope of analysis of the standard von Neumann-Morgenstern (vNM) expected utility model,...
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By identifying types whose low-order beliefs up to level ℓ<sub>i</sub> about the state of nature coincide, we obtain …
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framework the player's `depth of reasoning' is endogenously determined, and it can be disentangled from his beliefs over his … the individual's depth of reasoning and his beliefs about the reasoning process of the opponent. Thus, in our framework …'s predictions with an experiment. We administer different treatments that vary beliefs over payoffs and opponents, as well as …
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This paper shows that models where preferences of individuals depend not only on their allocations, but also on the well-being of other persons, can produce both large and testable effects. We study the allocation of workers with heterogeneous productivities to firms. We show that even small...
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We study the incentives to improve ability in a model where heterogeneous firms and workers interact in a labor market characterized by matching frictions and costly screening. When effort in improving ability raises both the mean and the variance of the resulting ability distribution, multiple...
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redistribution policies and their beliefs over the causes of poverty. By varying the information about the determinants of income, we …, Spanish subjects give more when they are uninformed compared to American subjects. Using elicited beliefs, we find that this …
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We analyze a monetary model with flexible labor supply, cash-inadvance constraints and seigniorage-financed government deficits. If the intertemporal elasticity of substitution of labor is greater than one, there are two steady states, one determinate and the other indeterminate. If the...
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peaks and excessive pessimism at market troughs. Formally incorporating subjective price beliefs into an otherwise standard …
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Opinion polls and other surveys are used to capture public sentiments on a variety of issues. If citizens are unwilling to reveal certain policy preferences to others, surveys may fail to characterize population preferences accurately. The innovation of this paper is to use unique data to...
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We present a theory of context-dependent choice in which a consumer's attention is drawn to salient attributes of goods, such as quality or price. An attribute is salient for a good when it stands out among the good's attributes, relative to that attribute's average level in the choice set (or...
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