In der betriebswirtschaftlichen Realität werden riskante Entscheidungen meistens nach vorherigen Gewinn- oder Verlusterfahrungen getroffen und empirische Beobachtungen legen nahe, dass vorherige derartige Erfahrungen das aktuelle Risikoverhalten beeinflussen. Da dieser Umstand in den...

Scientific evidence clearly indicates that consumption of raw milk carries substantialdisease-inducing health risks. While federal U.S. policy mandates that milk moving in interstatecommerce be pasteurized; within 41 of 50 states, raw milk can be obtained for consumption.Warning labels...

Behavioural economics draws upon fieldwork, experiments and research in disciplines such as psychology for building blocks to construct economic analysis that is more descriptively realistic and both augments and qualifies traditional economics as a tool for designing policy. Though behavioural...

This paper explores the interconnections between two of Herbert Simon's key concepts, bounded rationality and decomposability, and show how this unity provides the starting point for merging cognitively focused approaches to behavioral economics with evolutionary/institutional economics into a...

There is substantial empirical evidence and increasing recognition that not only outcomes, but also the procedures leading to them, can affect people' s utility from, and their reactions to, those decisions. However, there is still a large gap between numerous studies by non-economists (e.g.,...

Eine Vielzahl von Ökonomen untersucht mit Hilfe verschiedener theoretischer Modelle, inwiefern Steuern Einfluss auf wirtschaftliche Entscheidungen haben. Eine grundlegende Annahme in diesen Modellen ist dabei die Abwesenheit von Fehlwahrnehmungen. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, systematische...

Frequent criticism in dynamic decision making research pertains to the overly complex nature of the decision tasks used in experimentation. To address such concerns we study dynamic decision making with respect to the simple race game Hog, which has a computable optimal decision strategy. In the...

Landwirte wechseln oft nicht von ihrer Hausbank zu einer anderen Bank, auch wenn diese bessere Konditionen bietet. Diese „Wechselträgheit“ kann zum einen in den Transaktionskosten des Wechsels begründet sein. Zum anderen kann sie aber auch das Ergebnis begrenzt rationalen...

A person learns by trial and error if he occasionally tries out new strategies, rejecting choices that are “erroneous” in the sense that they do not lead to higher payoffs. In a game, however, strategies can become erroneous due to a change of behavior by someone else. Such passive errors...