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Behavioral political economy : a survey
Schnellenbach, Jan; Schubert, Christian - 2014
Explaining individual behavior in politics should rely on the same motivational assumptions as explaining behavior in the market: That’s what Political Economy, understood as the application of economics to the study of political processes, is all about. In its standard variant, those who...
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Theories of fairness and reciprocity : evidence and economic applications
Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2000
Most economic models are based on the self-interest hypothesis that assumes that all people are exclusively motivated by their material self-interest. In recent years experimental economists have gathered overwhelming evidence that systematically refutes the self-interest hypothesis and suggests...
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Electoral competition with rationally inattentive voters
Matĕjka, Filip; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2016 - This version: January 2016
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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On the causes and consequences of deviations from rational behavior
Zēgners, Dainis; Sunde, Uwe; Strittmatter, Anthony - 2020
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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The devil you know : rational inattention to discrete choices when prior information matters
Pellegrino, Bruno - 2023
In the seminal rational inattention model of Matĕjka and McKay (2015), logit demand arises from the discrete choice of agents who are uncertain about choice payoffs and have access to a flexible, costly information acquisition technology (RI-logit). A notable limitation of this powerful...
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Rationality, irrationality and economic cognition
Whalley, John (contributor) - 2005
This paper contrasts the modern use of the assumption that rationality guides individual economic behaviour, as … notions of rationality based on the availability of information, ability to reason (cognitive skills), and even morality …. Learning played a major role in individuals achieving what was referred to as complete rationality. I draw on these ideas, and …
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Axiom preferences and choice mistakes under risk
Herweg, Fabian; Hippel, Svenja; Müller, Daniel; … - 2024
We investigate whether violations of canonical axioms of choice under risk are mistakes or a manifestation of true preferences. First, we elicit axiom and gamble preferences and then allow subjects to revise their potentially conflicting preferences. Among the behavioral patterns that allow for...
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Homo oeconomicus as the homo moralis' party pooper : heterogenous morality in public good games
Eichner, Thomas; Runkel, Marco - 2024
The main insight of this paper is that moral behavior does not necessarily alleviate coordination problems or may even worsen them, if individuals possess different degrees of morality. We characterize heterogenous Alger-Weibull morality preferences in a canonical model of voluntary...
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Behavioral indifference curves
Komlos, John - 2014
According to the endowment effect there is some discomfort associated with giving up a good, that is to say, we are willing to give up something only if the price is greater than the price we are willing to pay for it. This implies that the indifference curves should designate a reference point...
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Non-welfarist optimal taxation and behavioral public economics : presented at CESifo Venice Summer Institute, Workshop on Behavioral Public Economics, July 2004
Kanbur, Ravi; Pirttilä, Jukka; Tuomala, Matti - 2004
Research in behavioral economics has uncovered the widespread phenomenon of people making decisions against their own good intentions. In these situations, the government might want to intervene, indeed individuals might want the government to intervene, to induce behavior that is closer to what...
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