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to a reference point) are a better predictor of behavior than expected utility. In particular, loss aversion is an … important element of such utility functions. We extend games to include loss aversion characteristics of the players. We define … two types of loss-aversion equilibrium, a solution concept endogenizing reference points. The two types reflect different …
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, analyzing the effect of differing levels of loss aversion on bargaining outcomes. We find that as with risk aversion, increasing … loss aversion for a player leads to worse outcomes for that player in bargaining situations. An extension of Nash's axioms …
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I explore a behavioral model of political participation, first introduced by Quattrone and Tversky [1988], based on the primitives of prospect theory, as defined by Kahneman and Tversky [1979]. The model offers an alternative explanation for why the President’s party tends to lose seats in...
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This paper presents an insight into the theoretical and empirical literature of Loss Aversion and Endowment Effect. The … years of successive positive evidence on Loss Aversion and Endowment Effect support the theoretical implications showed in … this paper. I conclude that Loss Aversion and Endowment Effects truly matter and their existence must not be taken into …
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that faces a convex tax schedule; and (iii) a firm whose manager is subject to loss aversion. In all these models, and …
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, consistent with a model of reference-dependent preferences exhibiting loss aversion and diminishing sensitivity. …
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Local financing of public schools in the U.S. leads to a bundling of two distinct choices - residential choice and school choice - and increases the degree of socioeconomic segregation across school districts. A school finance reform can go a long way in weakening this link. In this paper I...
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The influence of peer behavior on an individual's choices has received renewed interest in recent years. However, accurate measures of this influence are difficult to obtain. Standard reduced-form methods lead to upwardly biased estimates due to simultaneity, common shocks, and nonrandom peer...
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Researchers and educators often argue that a student's peers strongly influence his or her educational outcomes. If so, an unequal distribution of advantaged and disadvantaged students across schools in a community will leave many students doubly disadvantaged and amplify existing inequalities....
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It is often suggested that team spirit counteracts free-riding. Testing for team spirit with field data is difficult, however, due to an inherent identification problem. In this paper test for team spirit experimentally. In a team work task we vary subjects' information about relative team...
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