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Recursive preferences have found widespread application in representative-agent asset-pricing models and general equilibrium. A majority of these applications exploit two decision-theoretic properties not shared by the standard model of intertemporal choice: (i) agents care about the...
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deviation (in beliefs, utility, or perceived prices) is within e of expected utility theory. The number e can then be used as a …We propose a new measure of deviations from expected utility, given data on economic choices under risk and uncertainty … distance to the theory. We apply our methodology to three recent large-scale experiments. Many subjects in those experiments …
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Adaptation is omnipresent but people systematically fail to correctly anticipate the degree to which they adapt. This leads individuals to make inefficient intertemporal decisions. This paper concerns optimal income taxation to correct for such anticipation-biases in a framework where consumers...
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The availability of quantity information along with expenditure information in some household surveys allows the estimation of price reactions on the basis of unit values. We compare two specifications that have been proposed in this context by Deaton (1990) and Crawford et al. (1997) in order...
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