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In line with the fallacy of riskification of uncertainty by which decision makers believe that the effects of … markets, such as natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and financial crises--as a problem of risk management. This is … business continuity. Taken together, this article offers the foundation for a behaviorally plausible, decision …
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ingredients: (a) decision rights can be transferred ex ante through ownership, (b) managers (and possibly workers) enjoy private … assumption that contracts are reference points introduces a friction that permits an analysis of delegation …
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organization; and relationships with limited partners. In selecting investments, VCs see the management team as more important than …
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This paper examines demand systems where the demand for a good depends on other prices only through a common price aggregator (a scalar function of all prices). We refer to this property as ``generalized separability'' and provide the functional forms of demand that this property implies when...
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This paper examines demand systems where the demand for a good depends only on its own price, consumer income, and a single aggregator synthesizing information on all other prices. This generalizes directly-separable preferences where the Lagrange multiplier provides such an aggregator. As...
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. The numerical analysis literature offers many reliable methods, and should be used because alternatives derived from … difference methods from numerical analysis produces far superior approximations than do simple discrete-time systems …
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This paper investigates whether peer effects play an important role in retirement savings decisions. We use individual data from the staff of a university to study whether individual decisions to enroll in a Tax Deferred Account plan sponsored by the university (and the choice of the mutual fund...
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demand for decision-making and explores the consequences for life-cycle earnings. Career earnings growth in the U.S. more … substantial share of this shift is explained by increased employment in decision-intensive occupations, which have longer and more … gradual periods of earnings growth. To understand these patterns, I develop a model that nests decision-making in a standard …
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analyze the dynamic effects of feedback on beliefs about own performance and decision-making across two different domains …
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Households' and firms' subjective inflation expectations play a central role in macroeconomic and intertemporal microeconomic models. We discuss how subjective inflation expectations are measured, the patterns they display, their determinants, and how they shape households' and firms' economic...
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