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We discuss the literatures on behavioral economics, bounded rationality and experimental economics as they apply to firm behavior in markets. Topics discussed include the impact of imitative and satisficing behavior by firms, outcomes when managers care about their position relative to peers,...
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Is it better to apply effort to increase personal consumption, or control what one wants? The model presented here provides a characterization of demand for self control, namely, its responsiveness to price and risk. Unlike most other models of self control, the model does not identify self...
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economics. Motivated in part by the question of why labor economics has been a relatively slow adopter of behavioral theory … economists working in the neoclassical tradition have been relatively frank in revealing shortcomings of the neoclassical theory …
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Behavioral/experimental economics is poised to enter a new phase in its relatively brief intellectual history, moving beyond empirical tests of standard behavioral assumptions in the social sciences to the problem of designing improved institutions that are tuned to fit real-world behavior. For...
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would require dealing with six potential pitfalls based on economic theory that might arise when attempting to move to …
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Dynamic correlation models demonstrate that the relationship between interest rates and housing prices is non-constant. Estimates reveal statistically significant time fluctuations in correlations between housing price indexes and Treasury bonds, the S&P 500 Index, and stock prices of...
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elements of economic theory and experimental psychology. So far, the behavioural economics research agenda has concentrated on …. Forging a new normative economics based on behavioural theory is an ambitious project. There is not yet consensus, among … revision. From the observation that individual behaviour systematically deviates from textbook prescriptions for rational …
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classical theory of choice would suggest, the economic agents are rational and the markets are or should be efficient and behave … also rationally. This contribution tries to highlight some well-known limits of the classical theory of rational choiceand … compare this theory of choice with a different notion of rationality, bounded rationality, and with an approach that seeks to …
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instrumentalism and realism. Nudge, by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, represents a milestone in the development, and possibly the …
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In this paper we test a particular variant of the (Repulsive) Particle Swarm method on some rather difficult global optimization problems. A number of these problems are collected from the extant literature and a few of them are newly introduced. First, we introduce the Particle Swarm method of...
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