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This paper presents some of the first large-scale survey evidence linking optimism to major economic choices. We create a novel measure of optimism using the Survey of Consumer Finance by comparing a person's self-reported life expectancy to that implied by statistical tables. Optimists are more...
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simple cases, tests confirm that subjects adjust their attention in response to incentives as the theory dictates …
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automobiles and home appliances. To do so, it develops a heuristic model of a consumer's decision problem when purchasing an …
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Revealed preferences are tastes that rationalize an economic agent's observed actions. Normative preferences represent the agent's actual interests. It sometimes makes sense to assume that revealed preferences are identical to normative preferences. But there are many cases where this assumption...
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When optimizing consumption-savings decisions is costly, people may instead rely on quick-fixes, simple policy functions that avoid these costs. We introduce a model of quick-fixing. To study it empirically, we field a novel survey that measures households' consumption policy functions in...
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no action at a decision point. Consumers may face automatic renewal, automatic switching, or non-purchase defaults …
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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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from psychology, but also from sociology and anthropology. Whereas the concept of the decision-maker is the rational actor … the moment of decision-making, in some recent work in behavioral economics the decision-maker could be called the …
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The research in Psychology and Economics (a.k.a. Behavioral Economics) suggests that individuals deviate from the … standard model in three respects: (i) non-standard preferences; (ii) non-standard beliefs; and (iii) non-standard decision …. Regarding non-standard decision-making, I cover limited attention, menu effects, persuasion and social pressure, and emotions. I …
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Welfare Economics. A key theme of Cognitive Economics is finite cognition (often misleadingly called "bounded rationality …
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