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Can heuristic information processing affect important product markets? We explore whether the tendency to focus on the … this heuristic behavior is primarily attributable to the final used-car customers or the used-car salesmen who buy cars in … significance of these results for the literature on inattention and point to other market settings where this type of heuristic …
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processes, biases in belief updating, the representativeness heuristic as a possible unifying theory, and interactions between … modern behavioral economics. This chapter reviews theory and evidence on this topic, with the goal of facilitating more …
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This paper proposes a method for separating economic time series into a smooth component whose mean varies over time (the trend') and a stationary component (the cycle'). The aim is to make the trends as smooth as possible while also producing cycles with plausible properties. While the main...
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expectations with less naïve learning rules. Our results suggest that fast and frugal robust heuristics may not be a second …
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Heuristic models have been proposed for many domains of choice. We compare heuristic models of intertemporal choice …-of-sample, cross-validated comparison of intertemporal choice models. Heuristic models outperform traditional utility discounting …. We conclude that heuristic models explain time-money tradeoff choices in experiments better than utility discounting …
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structure is relevant in many applications. We develop the theory underlying optimal menus of non-linear schedules and prove …
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A vibrant literature has emerged that suggests willingness to pay and willingness to accept measures of value are quite different for inexperienced consumers but that value differences erode with market experience. One potential shortcoming of this literature is that market experience is...
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In models with complete markets, targeting core inflation enables monetary policy to maximize welfare by replicating the flexible price equilibrium. In this paper, we develop a two-sector two-good closed economy new Keynesian model to study the optimal choice of price index in markets with...
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Models of consumer behavior play a key role in modern empirical Industrial Organization. In this paper, I survey some of the models used in this literature. In particular, I discuss two commonly used demand systems: multi-stage budgeting approaches and discrete choice models. I motivate their...
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We develop and test a simple model of limited attention in intertemporal choice. The model posits that individuals fully attend to consumption in all periods but fail to attend to some future lumpy expenditure opportunities. This asymmetry generates some predictions that overlap with models of...
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