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materialize over time. Because risk and delay often arise simultaneously, theories of decision making should be capable of … explaining how behavior under risk and over time interacts. There is, in fact, a growing body of evidence indicating important … interactions between behaviorally revealed risk tolerance and patience. Risk taking behavior is delay dependent, and time …
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A large body of experimental research has demonstrated that, on average, people violate the axioms of expected utility … theory as well as of discounted utility theory. In particular, aggregate behavior is best characterized by probability …
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used to test the predictions of ten decision theories: risk neutrality, expected utility theory, fanning-out hypothesis … (weighted utility theory, transitive skew-symmetric bilinear utility theory), (cumulative) prospect theory, regret theory, rank …-dependent expected utility theory, Yaari’s dual model, prospective reference theory and disappointment aversion theory. Assumptions of …
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and time effects. The empirical part analyzes the distribution of life satisfaction over the life course at the aggregated …
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The British Industrial Revolution triggered a reversal in the social order of society whereby the landed elite was replaced by industrial capitalists rising from the middle classes as the economically dominant group. Many observers have linked this transformation to the contrast in values...
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In recent decades, the US has experienced a widening of the college enrolment gap between rich and poor families. This is commonly interpreted as evidence for a tightening of borrowing constraints. This paper asks whether this is indeed the case. I present an incomplete-markets...
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Attachment of wage as a way for creditors to enforce payment by unwilling or insolvent debtors is not very successful in several countries. Based on a dynamic model of debtor behaviour, this paper explores two alternatives of reform. One is to reduce the rate of attachment, which at present...
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This study compares individual preferences across incentives (i.e., hypothetical vs. real incentives) and over time (i ….e. elicitation at two different points in time) in a choice experiment involving charitable donating decisions. We provide evidence …
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whether the behavioral assumptions of the standard life cycle model with time separable preferences are empirically invalid … their efforts during working time. We document a large positive wage elasticity of overall labor supply and an even larger …
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We present a model in which two of the most important features of the long-run growth process are reconciled: the massive changes in the structure of production and employment; and the Kaldor facts of economic growth. We assume that households expand their consumption along a hierarchy of needs...
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