The satisficing approach with its three constituent processes, aspiration formation,satisficing, and aspiration adjustment, is formally elaborated for a specificclass of portfolio selection tasks. It is partly poorly confirmed by experimentaldata, indicating that bounded rationality requires...

In a stochastic duopoly market, sellers must form state-specific aspirationsexpressing how much they want to earn given their expectationsabout the other's behavior. We define individually and mutually satisficingsales behavior for given individual beliefs and aspiration profiles. In afirst...

Mit einem aktiven Portfoliomanagement verfolgen Investoren das Ziel, überdurchschnittliche Portfoliorenditen zu erzielen. Dieses Ziel wird dann erreicht, wenn Börsenkurse von ihren gerechtfertigten Werten abweichen. -- In dem vorliegenden Buch wird ein Ansatz für Aktien vorgestellt, mit dem...

The paper explores the applicability of the satisficing approach. Inparticular, we investigate whether basic principles of aspiration formationand satisficing behavior are transferable between similar situations.Individuals are sequentially confronted with two risky investmenttasks, a simple and...