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distance in determining outcomes. Applications range from politics, economics and sports, to biology, where the equilibrium …
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The weak rationality principle is not an empirical statement but a heuristic rule of how to proceed in social sciences …-foundation and, therefore, employ the rationality assumption in economic models. Then, with reference to the ‘bounded rationality … a part of the rationality assumption. We conclude with some remarks on handling the problems of ‘free will’ as well as …
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-driven theory of dynamic pricing in which the Phillips curve slope is endogenous to systematic aspects of monetary policy. In our …
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The Homo economicus of traditional economics is far from being completely self-interested, rational, or as …
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This paper presents novel evidence for the prevalence of deviations from rational behavior in human decision making – and for the corresponding causes and consequences. The analysis is based on move-by-move data from chess tournaments and an identification strategy that compares behavior of...
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deviation (in beliefs, utility, or perceived prices) is within e of expected utility theory. The number e can then be used as a … distance to the theory. We apply our methodology to three recent large-scale experiments. Many subjects in those experiments …
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Using a novel dataset that contains qualitative firm survey data on sales forecasts as well as balance-sheet data on realized sales, we document that only major forecast errors are predictable and display autocorrelation. This result is a particular violation of the Full Information Rational...
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This paper performs a welfare analysis of economies with private information when public information is endogenously generated and agents can condition on noisy public statistics in the rational expectations tradition. We find that equilibrium is not (restricted) efficient even when feasible...
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How do voters allocate costly attention to alternative political issues? And how does selective ignorance of voters interact with policy design by politicians? We address these questions by developing a model of electoral competition with rationally inattentive voters. Rational inattention...
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the market: That’s what Political Economy, understood as the application of economics to the study of political processes … selfinterested, unlike the benevolent despot of earlier models. History repeats itself with the rise of behavioral economics … intervene in a "benevolent" way. Recently, however, political economists have started to apply behavioral economics insights to …
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