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This paper builds a consumer search model where the cost of going back to stores already searched is explicitly taken into account. We show that the optimal search rule under costly recall is very different from the optimal search rule under perfect recall. Under costly recall, the optimal...
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their risk aversion parameter invest less in risky assets than wealthy investors with identical risk aversion uncertainty. …
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This study analyses the relation between perceived health status and intertemporal choice. We use data from experiments with real monetary rewards conduEted among students in South Africa to estimate risk and time preferences. These experimental data, based on muitiple price lists developed by...
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Higher order risk preferences are important determinants of economic behaviour. We apply behavioural insights to this topic: we measure higher order risk preferences for pure gains and pure losses by controlling the reference point. We find a reflection effect not only for second order risk...
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We examine the risky choices of contestants in the popular TV game show “Deal or No Deal” and related classroom experiments. Contrary to the traditional view of expected utility theory, the choices can be explained in large part by previous outcomes experienced during the game. Risk aversion...
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The common view that buyer power of insurers may effectively counteract provider market power critically rests on the idea that consumers and insurers have a joint interest in extracting price concessions. However, in markets where the buyer is an insurer, the interests of insurers and consumers...
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This paper demonstrates that well-established biases in decision making under uncertainty can generate poverty traps. A …
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pay for continued search and the level of price uncertainty depends on her risk preferences. Independent of the current … best price, an increase in price uncertainty encourages continued search when consumers are risk neutral. However, we prove … uncertainty only increases the consumer's willingness to pay (WTP) for continued search if the current best price is sufficiently …
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