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. In this paper, we explore the consequences of improved prediction in decision-making. To do so, we adapt existing models … of decision-making under uncertainty to account for the process of determining payoffs. We label this process of … on whether the improvements in prediction enable automated decision-making. We discuss the implications of improved …
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errors in decision making are inevitable. Moreover, under the appropriate conditions, these decisions are random conditional … situations than would be possible with randomized control trials. This point is illustrated with data from medical decision …
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In this paper, we ask how bankruptcy law affects the financial decisions of corporations and its implications for firm dynamics. According to current U.S. law, firms have two bankruptcy options: Chapter 7 liquidation and Chapter 11 reorganization. Using Compustat data, we first document capital...
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We document that prior portfolio choices influence investors' expectations about asset values, and their future choices. We find that people update more from information consistent with their prior choices, leading to sticky portfolios over time. These effects are related to how the brain's...
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In line with the fallacy of riskification of uncertainty by which decision makers believe that the effects of … institutional theory that points to stakeholder and institutional dynamics affecting economic incentives to invest in prevention and … business continuity. Taken together, this article offers the foundation for a behaviorally plausible, decision …
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This paper provides a unified framework for interpreting a wide range of interactions models which have appeared in the economics literature. A formalization taken from the statistical mechanics literature is shown to encompass a number of socioeconomic phenomena ranging from out of wedlock...
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influences the decision to retire. The magnitude of behavioral responses to changes in social security benefits are reported and …
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entrepreneurial decision. Our data are uniquely well-suited for this purpose. The sample consists of the 1981 and 1985 federal income … decision to become an entrepreneur and important financial characteristics of new enterprises. Our results suggest that the …
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This paper studies the consequences of physician authority on pharmaceutical prescribing. Physicians engage in a costly process of particular conditions and characteristics. The relative efficiency of this matching process results from the diagnostic skill of the physician along with the...
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In this paper, we assess the degree to which four of the most commonly used models of risky decision making can explain … enough to approximate Kahnenman and Tversky's prospect theory and that for certain parametric values will yield the expected … explain the decision-making behavior of the majority of our subjects. Surprisingly, we find that the choice behavior of the …
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