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VSS, the search is sequential and in each period the sample size is variable. As normal, we will extract sellers prices …
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Investors systematically deviate from rationality when making financial decisions, yet the mechanisms responsible for these deviations have not been identified. Using event-related fMRI, we examined whether anticipatory neural activity would predict optimal and suboptimal choices in a financial...
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, the buyer can choose to leave the negotiation table to search for other alternatives. Under one version, if the buyer … chooses to search for a better price, the opportunity to purchase the good at the stated price is gone. Under the second … version, the seller guarantees the same price if the buyer chooses to return immediately after a search (presumably because a …
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of costly search to discover prices. We ask whether such equilibria can be learnt when sellers adjust prices adaptively …
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This paper develops a utility model for evaluating lotteries. In estimating utility, risk averse people use an asymmetric loss function. Expected utility is seen as a special case that is a good approximation of the general case in some cases. The model resolves several paradoxes and makes...
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In a laboratory experiment, subjects played ten two-person 3x3 constant sum games and stated beliefs about the …
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We examine a logical decision problem, the "Monty Hall Dilemma," in which a large portion of sophisticated subjects insist on an apparently wrong solution. Although a substantial literature examines the structure of this problem, we argue that the extant analyses have not recognized the...
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We perform a further experiment to check the robustness of the main result in Rey Biel (2005) to sequential play. We …
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One of the most robust findings in experimental analysis in economics is that subjects often display a large discrepancy between the dollar value they are willing to accept in order to sell an item (WTA) and the dollar value they are willing to pay to purchase it (WTP). We suggest that often...
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