Optimism bias is inconsistent with the independence of decision weights and payoffs found in models of choice under risk, such as expected utility theory and prospect theory. Hence, to explain the evidence suggesting that agents are optimistically biased, we propose an alternative model of risky...

In order to incorporate recent developments in Bounded Rationality and Behavioral Economics into Choice Theory, we introduce the notion of an extended choice problem (A,f) where A is a set of alternatives and f is a frame. A frame consists of observable information that appears to be irrelevant...