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temptation and self-control to capture an individual who changes her beliefs so as to become more pessimistic as payoff time …
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temptation and self-control to capture an individual who changes her beliefs so as to become more pessimistic as payoff time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005730964
We propose and axiomatically characterize dynamically consistent update rules for decision making under ambiguity. These rules apply to the preferences with multiple priors of Gilboa and Schmeidler (1989), and are the first, for any model of preferences over acts, to be able to reconcile typical...
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Among the reasons behind the choice behavior of an individual taking a stochastic form are her potential indifference or indecisiveness between certain alternatives, and/or her willingness to experiment in the sense of occasionally deviating from choosing a best alternative in order to give a...
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Our understanding of risk preferences can be sharpened by considering their evolutionary basis. The existing literature has focused on two sources of risk: idiosyncratic risk and aggregate risk. We introduce a new source of risk, heritable risk, in which there is a positive correlation between...
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We propose and axiomatically characterize dynamically consistent update rules for decision making under ambiguity. These rules apply to the preferences with multiple priors of Gilboa and Schmeidler (1989), and are the first, for any model of preferences over acts, to be able to reconcile typical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005812751
This paper extends the theory of temptation and self-control introduced by Gul and Pesendorfer (2001) to allow for … increasing marginal costs of resisting temptation, that is, convex self-control costs. It also proves a representation theorem …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011599426
This paper extends the theory of temptation and self-control introduced by Gul and Pesendorfer (2001) to allow for … increasing marginal costs of resisting temptation, that is, convex self-control costs. It also proves a representation theorem …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008595766
I study endogenous learning dynamics for people who misperceive intertemporal correlations in random sequences. Biased agents face an optimal-stopping problem. They are uncertain about the underlying distribution and learn its parameters from predecessors. Agents stop when early draws are "good...
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Economic agents care about their relative well-being, and the comparisons are usually local. We capture this using a network model, in which an agent's payoff depends on the ranking of their allocation among their network neighbors’. Given a network, an allocation is called α-stable if no...
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