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The dynamics of inattention in the (baseball) field
Archsmith, James; Heyes, Anthony; Neidell, Matthew; … - 2021
Recent theoretical and empirical work characterizes attention as a limited resource that decision-makers strategically allocate. There has been less research on the dynamic interdependence of attention: how paying attention now may affect performance later. In this paper, we exploit...
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EU competition law: an unaffordable luxury in times of crisis?
Massey, Patrick; McDowell, Moore - 2020
The paper looks at two aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic. These are (i) the nature of this event and its implication for evaluating past policy and policy into the future, and (ii) the suitability of proposed changes in the implementation of competition policy affecting firm behaviour, market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221295
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A model of overconfidence
Weinberg, Bruce A. - 2009
People use information about their ability to choose tasks. If more challenging tasks provide more accurate information about ability, people who care about and who are risk averse over their perception of their own ability will choose tasks that are not sufficiently challenging. Overestimation...
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Human capital : linking behavior to rational choice via dual process theory
MacLeod, William Bentley - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 41 (2016), pp. 20-31
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Policies in hard times : assessing the impact of financial crises on structural reforms
Gokmen, Gunes; Nannicini, Tommaso; Onorato, … - 2020
It is commonly argued that crises open up a window of opportunity to implement policies that otherwise would not have the necessary political backing. The argument goes that the political cost of deep reforms declines as crises unravel structural problems that need to be urgently rectified and...
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Internal versus external growth in industries with scale economies : a computational model of optimal merger policy
Mermelstein, Ben; Nocke, Volker; Satterthwaite, Mark Allen - 2014
We study optimal merger policy in a dynamic model in which the presence of scale economies implies that firms can reduce costs through either internal investment in build- ing capital or through mergers. The model, which we solve computationally, allows firms to invest or propose mergers...
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Cognitive skills, strategic sophistication, and life outcomes
Fe, Eduardo; Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2020
emphasize the importance of childhood theory-of-mind as a cognitive skill. We collected experimental data from more than seven … hundred children in a variety of strategic interactions. First, we find that theory-of-mind ability and cognitive ability both … provides support for the emergence of a sophisticated strategic theory-of-mind. Third, theory-of-mind and age strongly predict …
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Subjective well-being and public policy
Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois - 2017
Measures of subjective well-being have gained substantial attention in economics as quantitative approximations of individual welfare. They allow researchers to study relevant determinants of welfare on an individual as well as on a societal level. These determinants might not to be easily...
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Econometric explorations on bounded rationality : the case of job changing behavior
Contini, Bruno (contributor); Morini, Matteo (contributor) - 2007
"In this paper we question the hypothesis of full rationality in the context of job changing behavior, via simple econometric explorations on microdata drawn from WHIP (Worker Histories Italian Panel). A rational outcome of the job matching process implies a positive tradeoff between future...
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Random categorization and bounded rationality
Aguiar, Victor H. - In: Economics letters 159 (2017), pp. 46-52
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