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Can heuristic information processing affect important product markets? We explore whether the tendency to focus on the … this heuristic behavior is primarily attributable to the final used-car customers or the used-car salesmen who buy cars in … significance of these results for the literature on inattention and point to other market settings where this type of heuristic …
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This paper proposes a method for separating economic time series into a smooth component whose mean varies over time (the trend') and a stationary component (the cycle'). The aim is to make the trends as smooth as possible while also producing cycles with plausible properties. While the main...
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processes, biases in belief updating, the representativeness heuristic as a possible unifying theory, and interactions between … modern behavioral economics. This chapter reviews theory and evidence on this topic, with the goal of facilitating more …
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expectations with less naïve learning rules. Our results suggest that fast and frugal robust heuristics may not be a second …
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Heuristic models have been proposed for many domains of choice. We compare heuristic models of intertemporal choice …-of-sample, cross-validated comparison of intertemporal choice models. Heuristic models outperform traditional utility discounting …. We conclude that heuristic models explain time-money tradeoff choices in experiments better than utility discounting …
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structure is relevant in many applications. We develop the theory underlying optimal menus of non-linear schedules and prove …
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We examine the role of consumption externalities in the demand for pharmaceuticals at both the brand level and over a therapeutic class of drugs. These effects emerge when use of a drug by others affects its value, and/or conveys information abut efficacy and safety to patients and physicians....
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We review the fast-growing work on salience and economic behavior. Psychological research shows that salient stimuli attract human attention "bottom up" due to their high contrast with surroundings, their surprising nature relative to recalled experiences, or their prominence. The Bordalo,...
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We propose an approach to modeling and estimating discrete choice demand that allows for a large number of zero sale observations, rich unobserved heterogeneity, and endogenous prices. We do so by modeling small market sizes through Poisson arrivals. Each of these arriving consumers then solves...
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Although the Ricardian Equivalence Theorem holds under a linear estate tax schedule, it fails to hold under a nonlinear estate tax schedule. In a representative consumer economy, a temporary lump-sum tax increase reduces contemporaneous consumption. If different consumers face different marginal...
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