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's messages. This confirms ``truth bias'' reported in communication theory in a one-shot, anonymous environment without nonverbal … under certain conditions. We claim that the theory for the evolution of language should address why truthful communication …
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the banking decision, where a contestant chooses to secure an amount of money for the eventual winner, or to risk it on a …
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explained. Adding to a system with initial behavior heterogeneity an adaptive learning rule based on discrete choice theory, one …
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innovation projects. There is heterogeneity in terms of risk associated to research programs (researchers invest in projects with …
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Monetary policy has an important role in the determination of the inflation rate and the output gap time trajectories. Monetary authorities should choose the nominal interest rate time path that best serves the goals of price stability (primarily) and output growth (as a consequence of the...
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This paper introduces a psychological notion of categorization into economics and derives its implications for economic decision making. We show, using a tractable model of social cognition, that a decision maker in (efficiently) assigning past experiences to categories, will sort experiences of...
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We analyze different ways of pairing agents in a bipartite matching problem, with regard to its scaling properties and to the distribution of individual ``satisfactions''. Then we explore the role of partial information and bounded rationality in a generalized {\it Marriage Problem}, comparing...
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The paper provides an brief overview of the “state of the art” in the theory of rational decision making since the 1950 … normative interpretation of decision-making theory is therefore questioned, and the two challenging views against this approach … , Simon’s bounded rationality and Allais’ criticism to expected utility theory are discussed. On this ground it is shown that …
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Asset prices are forward looking. This evidence implies that prices of financial assets are essentially determined by the traders expectations about future prices. Another evidence about asset prices is that these do not seem to follow a predictable pattern over time; we observe periods of high...
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. Automated buyers are similar. Across experiment sessions we vary the exponential distribution parameters of automated sellers … profile of types present in each experiment session. This econometric model demonstrates that (1) human buyers outperform …
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