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Consumer loss aversion and scale-dependent psychological switching costs
Karle, Heiko; Schumacher, Heiner; Vølund, Rune - 2021
We consider the Salop (1979) model of product differentiation and assume that consumers are uncertain about the qualities and prices of firms’ products. They can inspect all products at zero cost. A share of consumers is expectation-based loss averse. For these consumers, a purchase plan,...
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Expectations as reference points : field evidence from experienced subjects in a competitive, high-stakes environment
Bartling, Björn; Brandes, Leif; Schunk, Daniel - 2012
; competition …
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Competition and innovation in automobile markets
Ghosal, Vivek; Ni, Jiayao - 2015
Using data from the US automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation …. Consistent with a large literature, we use patent counts as a measure of innovation. The combination of the US market's economic … interesting market to examine the link between competition and innovation. We use firm-level time-series data over a long horizon …
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Ten facts on declining business dynamism and lessons from endogenous growth theory
Akcigit, Ufuk; Ates, Sina T. - 2019
explain them. We then describe a theoretical framework of endogenous markups, innovation, and competition that can potentially …
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Meta-analysis of empirical estimates of loss-aversion
Brown, Alexander L.; Imai, Taisuke; Vieider, Ferdinand M.; … - 2021
Loss aversion is one of the most widely used concepts in behavioral economics. We conduct a large-scale interdisciplinary meta-analysis, to systematically accumulate knowledge from numerous empirical estimates of the loss aversion coefficient reported during the past couple of decades. We...
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Mental accounting, loss aversion, and tax evasion : theory and evidence
Dhami, Sanjit S.; Hajimoladarvish, Narges - 2020
The evidence shows source-dependent entitlement to income sources and individuals are reluctant to part with income they feel more entitled to, e.g., earned labor income. Taxpayers may also be more reluctant to part with tax payments (evade more) from income sources they feel more entitled to- a...
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Optimal stopping in a dynamic salience model
Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Frey, Jonas; Köster, Mats - 2020
While many puzzles in static choices under risk can be explained by a preference for positive and an aversion toward negative skewness, little is known about the implications of such skewness preferences for decision making in dynamic problems. Indeed, skewness preferences might play an even...
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Cognitive imprecision and stake-dependent risk attitudes
Khaw, Mel Win; Li, Ziang; Woodford, Michael - 2022
In an experiment that elicits subjects' willingness to pay (WTP) for the outcome of a lottery, we confirm the fourfold pattern of risk attitudes described by Kahneman and Tversky. In addition, we document a systematic effect of stake sizes on the magnitude and sign of the relative risk premium,...
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Loss aversion and tax evasion : theory and evidence
Dhami, Sanjit S.; Hajimoladarvish, Narges; Mamidi, Pavan - 2023
We consider income-source-dependent tax evasion and show that this is a generalization of the well-known endowment effect. We show that loss aversion, moral costs, mental accounting, and risk preferences play a key role in explaining key features of source-dependent tax evasion. We provide...
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Loss aversion, risk aversion, and the shape of the probability weighting function
Rablen, Matthew D. - 2023
Loss aversion, risk aversion, and the probability weighting function (PWF) are three central concepts in explaining decisionmaking under risk. I examine interlinkages between these concepts in a model of decisionmaking that allows for loss averse/tolerant stochastic reference dependence and...
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