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learning model with the theory of rational inattention introduced by Sims (2006). In the model firms optimally allocate …
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The public finance literature demonstrates the equivalence between consumption and labor-income (wage) taxes. We introduce an experimental paradigm in which individuals make real labor-leisure choices and spend their earned income on real goods. We use this paradigm to test whether a...
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considerations moves behavior toward traditional economic rationality in UG, PD, and DG. Despite entering the study with higher …
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Standard economic analysis assumes that people make choices that maximize their utility. Yet both popular discourse and other fields assume that people sometimes fail to make optimal choices and thus adversely affect their own happiness. Most social sciences thus frequently describe some...
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Resit exams – extra opportunities to do an exam in the same academic year – are widely prevalent in European higher education, but uncommon in the US. I present a simple theoretical model to compare rational student behavior in the case of only one exam opportunity versus the case of two...
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Acquiring information about destinations can be costly for migrants. We model information frictions in the rational inattention framework and obtain a closed-form expression for a migration gravity equation that we bring to the data. The model predicts that ows from countries with a higher cost...
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This paper deals with one of the main empirical problems associated with the rational addiction theory, namely that its …
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In this paper we question the hypothesis of full rationality in the context of job changing behaviour, via simple … forces of job change are future real wages and expected job quality. Bounded rationality suggests that individuals will … and between cells. Under full rationality the following are to be expected: high inter-cell mobility, large dispersion …
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We study belief updating about relative performance in an ego-relevant task. Manipulating the perceived ego-relevance of the task, we show that subjects update their beliefs optimistically because they derive direct utility flows from holding positive beliefs. This finding provides a behavioral...
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taxes under a balanced-budget rule in the presence of consumption externalities of the "keeping up with the Joneses" type … eliminating belief-driven cyclical fluctuations. Moreover, for higher values of consumption externalities, saddle path stability …
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