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A general framework is described specifying how boundedly rational decision makers generate their choices. Starting … decision routines (by applying New Problem Solver). Our admittedly bold attempt is loosely related to some stylized …
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preferences. Among the behavioral patterns that allow for a clear-cut interpretation on the decision level, we find that roughly …
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by 8 - 15% compared to only offering a pay-per-use contract. -- access services ; pricing contracts ; decision biases …
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thereby distort optimal search. In addition, urgency may alter decision-making processes and thereby the salience of regret … interaction on search behavior in a pre-registered, theory-based, and well-powered experiment. We find that urgency reduces … decision times and perceived decision quality but does not alter search length. Only very inexperienced decision-makers buy …
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are information seeking otherwise. Because belief updating depends on the decision problem in which new information is …
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The Homo economicus of traditional economics is far from being completely self-interested, rational, or as individualistic as he is purported to be; he will haggle to death over price but will not take what he wants by force. Implicitly, he is assumed to behave ruthlessly within a welldefined...
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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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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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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 presents novel evidence for the prevalence of deviations from rational behavior in human decision making …
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