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-informed others. This paper presents a controlled experiment showing that this "curse of knowledge" can cause comparative …
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negotiation situations. We report the results of a laboratory experiment that was designed to isolate the effect of the curse of …
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that many households are unfamiliar with even the most basic economic concepts needed to make saving and investment …
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of stocks and bonds, the concept of risk diversification, and the working of financial markets. We also find that the …
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Prior laboratory experiments have studied general equilibrium economies constructed from "induced preferences" for artificial goods. We introduce new methods that allow us to study economies constructed instead from subjects' actual, "homegrown" preferences. Our subjects reveal their preferences...
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We propose a new decision criterion under risk in which people extract both utility from anticipatory feelings ex ante … raises both the utility of ex ante feelings and the risk of disappointment ex post. We characterize the optimal beliefs and … the preferences under risk generated by this mental process and apply this criterion to a simple portfolio choice …
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We analytically show that a common across rich/poor individuals Stone-Geary utility function with subsistence consumption in the context of a simple two-asset portfolio-choice model is capable of qualitatively and quantitatively explaining: (i) the higher saving rates of the rich, (ii) the...
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In this paper, we design an investment game which allows us to study the influence of selection when learning from … others. Using the theoretical study of selection neglect in Jehiel (2018) as a guide, we test (i) for the presence of … selection neglect in this investment context, and (ii) some comparative static predictions of the model. We find strong evidence …
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) multiple price list. Parametric and non-parametric measures of risk preferences are found to shift towards risk neutrality for …
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depletion should increase framing effects. To test this we designed two experiments in which we depleted participants' willpower …
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