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Ambiguity as a Source of Temptation: Modeling Unstable Beliefs
Lapied, André; Rongiconi, Thomas - HAL - 2013
focus on the fact that lack of information is a potential source of temptation. Indeed lack of information doesn't allow the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933870
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Cognitive control and socially desirable behavior: The role of interpersonal impact
Pitesa, Marko; Thau, Stefan; Pillutla, Madan M. - HAL - 2013
Individuals' willingness to act in socially desirable ways, such as sharing resources with others and abiding by norms of ethical conduct, is a necessary condition of social life. The current research reconciles two seemingly contradicting sets of findings on the role of cognitive control in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739140
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Self Control and Intertemporal Choice: Evidence from Glucose and Depletion Interventions
Kuhn, Michael A.; Kuhn, Peter; Villeval, Marie Claire - HAL - 2014
is an increase in subjects' attention to the decision, rather than their ability to resist the temptation to get money …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752035
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Quantum Type Indeterminacy in Dynamic Decision-Making: Self-control Through Identity Management
Busemeyer, Jérôme; Lambert-Mogiliansky, Ariane - HAL - 2012
The Type Indeterminacy model is a theoretical framework that uses some elements of quantum formalism to model the constructive preference perspective suggested by Kahneman and Tversky. In a dynamic decision context type indeterminacy induces a game with multiple selves associated with a state...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738965
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Optimal short-sighted ruless
Bourgeois-Gironde, Sacha - HAL - 2012
The aim of this paper is to assess the relevance of methodological transfers from behavioral ecology to experimental economics with respect to the elicitation of intertemporal preferences. More precisely our discussion will stem from the analysis of Stephens and Anderson's (2001) seminal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010571511
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Innovation and information acquisition under time inconsistency and uncertainty
Chemarin, Sophie; Orset, Caroline - HAL - 2008
This paper analyzes the impact of hyperbolic discounting preferences on theagent's information acquisition decision who wants to undertake a potentialdangerous activity for human health or the environment. We find that belowcertain discount rate threshold, an agent prefers ignoring information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793771
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The Importance of the Cognitive Environment for Intertemporal Choice
Kuhn, Michael A.; Kuhn, Peter; Villeval, Marie Claire - HAL - 2013
We experimentally manipulate two aspects of the cognitive environment -- cognitive depletion and recent sugar intake -- and estimate their effects on individuals' time preferences in a way that allows us to identify the structural parameters of a simple (α,β,δ) intertemporal utility function...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899914
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Female Access to Credit in France: How Microfinance Institutions Import Disparate Treatment from Banks
Cozarenco, Anastasia; Szafarz, Ariane - HAL - 2013
period, the MFI does not co-finance projects with mainstream banks and loan size is gender-insensitive. In the second period …, the MFI does co-finance above-ceiling projects with mainstream banks, and we observe a gender gap in loan size. The … results suggest that co-financing leads the originally gender-neutral MFI to import disparate treatment from mainstream banks. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933836
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Approved routes and alternative paths: the construction of women's rarity in large accounting firms. Evidence from the Big Four France
Lupu, Ioana - HAL - 2011
Despite decades of gender-balanced recruitment and clear-cut criteria for promotion based on meritocracy, women in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323509
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Do Women Prefer a Co-operative Work Environment?
Kuhn, Peter; Villeval, Marie Claire - HAL - 2011
the observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325706