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a series of additional laboratory experiments suggest that task complexity decreases the responsiveness to incentives …
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It is entirely appropriate that the study of public finance take seriously behavioral" inconsistencies with traditional models of individual and collective decision-making. This raises the question of whether the state should play a role in protecting individuals from themselves, and whether...
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from complexity theory that takes account of true uncertainty and increasing returns to technology adoption. We examine …
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computational complexity of the decision problem. These results point to the context-dependence of what comes to mind and the …
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We analyze the relationship between cognitive ability and bunching in the context of a large and salient kink point of the Swedish income tax schedule. Using population-wide register data from the Swedish military enlistment and administrative tax records, we find that high-ability individuals...
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We study two dimensions of complexity that may interfere with individual choice. The first one is object complexity … complexity, which increases when suboptimal alternatives become more similar to optimal ones. We develop a satisficing …, as the object complexity of an optimal (suboptimal) alternative increases, it becomes less (more) likely to be chosen …
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This paper studies the relevance of cognitive uncertainty – subjective uncertainty over one’s utility-maximizing action – for understanding and predicting intertemporal choice. The main idea is that when people are cognitively noisy, such as when a decision is complex, they implicitly...
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In this paper, we analyze whether the complexity of tax bills affects financial markets. Based on the Flesch … between tax bills' complexity and financial markets using an event study approach. Our results show a negative (positive) and …
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, structural estimates of present bias, hyperbolicity and transitivity violations – are driven by complexity rather than time or … intertemporal decisions. Second, intertemporal choice anomalies are highly correlated with indices of complexity responses including … to complexity severely inflates structural estimates of present bias. …
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We consider technology choices between green and brown technologies by firms. We use insights from complexity theory …
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