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This paper estimates a New Keynesian model with new and old behavioral elements. Agents in the model exhibit cognitive discounting, or myopia: they discount variables far into the future at higher rates than typically implied in the benchmark model. We investigate the model under different...
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News reports and communication are inherently constrained by space, time, and attention. As a result, news sources often condition the decision of whether to share a piece of information on the similarity between the signal and the prior belief of the audience, which generates a sample selection...
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-with-evaluation-errors theory that incorporates both dimensions and delivers sharp empirical predictions about their effect on choice behavior. We …
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how the imperfections of human rationality shape individual decisions and behaviors, the implications of these … rationally (in the sense of rational choice theory) pursuing them. This leads to a certain skepticism towards the idealization of … democracy as human rationality in pursuit of the common good, which serves to provide cover for those who profit from the …
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of heterogeneity in the population and that even with very small degrees of non-rationality it may be optimal not to …
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Understanding how people behave in strategic settings–where they make decisions based on their expectations about the behavior of others–is a longstanding problem in the behavioral sciences. We conduct the largest study to date of strategic decision-making in the context of initial play in...
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While the effect of social security systems on retirement decisions has received much attention, the impact of these systems on individuals incentives to invest in their human capital has not been analyzed. We integrate human capital investment and retirement decisions in a simple analytical...
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respects: income-earning ability and rationality. Publicly provided goods should be overprovided or subsidised, relative to the …
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Assuming a two-period model with endogenous choices of labour, education, and saving, it is shown to be second-best efficient to deviate from Ramsey's Rule and to distort qualified labour less than nonqualified labour. The result holds for arbitrary utility and learning functions. Efficient...
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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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