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with real monetary rewards conduEted among students in South Africa to estimate risk and time preferences. These … preference from observed discount rates. Once these factors are taken into account, HIV+ agents’ time preferences conform to …
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Many empirical studies on intertemporal choice report preference reversals in the sensethat a preference between a small reward to be received soon and a larger reward to bereceived later reverses as both rewards are equally delayed. Such preference reversals arecommonly interpreted as...
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We propose a novel utility representation for preferences over risky timed outcomes. The weighted temporal utility … weighted temporal utility function can have time consistent yet non-stationary preferences or stationary yet time inconsistent … preferences. Thus, our model can explain the empirical evidence in Halevy (2012) which is at odds with standard models of …
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Higher order risk preferences are important determinants of economic behaviour. We apply behavioural insights to this … topic: we measure higher order risk preferences for pure gains and pure losses by controlling the reference point. We find a … reflection effect not only for second order risk preferences, as in Kahneman and Tversky 1979, but also for higher order risk …
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Sustainability ratings help consumers understand the environmental impact of their purchases. Such ratings have increased the consumers' sustainable choices in the electrodomestics and housing markets. In the particular case of energy labels, sustainable products are also associated with private...
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Does attention have a causal impact on risky decisions? We address this question in a preregistered experiment in which participants accept or reject a series of mixed gambles while exogenously varying how information can be sampled. Specifically, in each trial participants observe the outcomes...
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Economists have become increasingly interested in using attention to explain behavioral patterns both on the micro and macro level. This has resulted in several disparate theoretical approaches. Some, like rational inattention, assume a "top-down" model of executive optimization. Others, like...
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We propose a utility representation for preferences over risky timed outcomes, the weighted temporal utility model. It … non-stationary preferences or stationary yet time-inconsistent preferences. We provide a characterization of our model and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014200777
with real monetary rewards conducted among students in South Africa to estimate risk and time preferences. These … preference from observed discount rates. Once these factors are taken into account, HIV+ agents' time preferences conform to …
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Social preference models were originally constructed to explain two things: why people spend money to affect the earnings of others and why the income of others influences reported happiness. We test these models in a novel experimental situation where participants face a risky decision that...
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