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are information seeking otherwise. Because belief updating depends on the decision problem in which new information is …
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An agent wants to derive her belief over outcomes based on past observations collected in her database (memory). There is well establish evidence in the psychology and marketing literature that agents consistently fail (or choose not) to process all available information. An agent might be...
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I show theoretically that applying the model of Köszegi and Rabin (2006) to a simple purchasing decision where … have a salient market price or no market price outside of the experiment. …
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Sellers often discriminate heterogeneous consumers with just a few products. This paper proposes an explanation for such coarse screening, based on consumer loss aversion. In our model, a seller offers a menu of bundles before a consumer learns his willingness to pay, and the consumer...
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-specific and decisionspecific variation in attention and verify our framework in an eye-tracking experiment on risky choice. We …
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We study optimal price discrimination when a monopolist faces a continuum of consumers with reference-dependent preferences. A consumer's valuation for product quality consists of an intrinsic valuation affected by a private state signal (type), and a gain-loss valuation that depends on...
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thereby distort optimal search. In addition, urgency may alter decision-making processes and thereby the salience of regret …Perceived urgency and regret are common in many sequential search processes; for example, sellers often pressure buyers … in search of the best offer, both time-wise and in terms of potential regret of forgoing unique purchasing opportunities …
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thereby distort optimal search. In addition, urgency may alter decision-making processes and thereby the salience of regret …Perceived urgency and regret are common in many sequential search processes; for example, sellers often pressure buyers … in search of the best offer, both time-wise and in terms of potential regret of forgoing unique purchasing opportunities …
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The consequences of many economic decisions only materialize in the future. To make informed choices in such decision … forecasts, closely resembles a stylized decision problem under risk. We find that customers' decisions are heavily influenced by …
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points. The implications of this model are tested in an experiment in which participants have to make a consumption choice …
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