anchoring phenomenon in financial decision-making. We find that contestants anchor heavily on the initial dollar value of a clue … in their wagering decision, even though there exists no rational reason to do so. More than half of all wagers occur … manifests itself among college students. Overall, our findings suggest anchoring plays a substantial role in financial decision …

decision making in complex decision tasks relative to conscious thought. Different from prior work testing this prediction, we … processing in complex decision making. …

We examine whether biases identified in the behavioral-economics literature apply in decision-making for others (DMfO …). We conduct a laboratory experiment in which subjects make decision on behalf of themselves and others in eighteen tasks …

We study the choice of a principal to either delegate a decision to a group of careerist experts, or to consult them … individually and keep the decision-making power. Our model predicts a trade-off between information acquisition and information …

decisions. In this challenge, they confront two questions: what decision theory to follow and how to implement it in AI systems …. This paper provides answers to these questions and makes three contributions. The first is to discuss how economic decision … consideration of procedural rationality, overcoming computational difficulties, and understanding decision-making in disequilibrium …

This paper studies the interplay between deadlines and cognitive limitations. We analyze an agent's decision to …

-leaving decision of young adults. We achieve identification by exploiting the differences in the timing of leaving the parental home … on the decision of young adults to leave parental home. This is true even after we control for labor and housing market …