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discounting, or myopia: they discount variables far into the future at higher rates than typically implied in the benchmark model … minimal estimated degrees of myopia. The results indicate that the empirical evidence for cognitive discounting may be …
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Information frictions play an important role in many theories of expectation formation. We use a survey experiment to generate direct evidence on how people select, acquire and process information. Participants can buy different information signals that could help them forecast future national...
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discounting, or myopia: they discount variables far into the future at higher rates than typically implied in the benchmark model … minimal estimated degrees of myopia. The results indicate that the empirical evidence for cognitive discounting may be …
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Are preferences exogenously given? Or do individual tastes and values evolve endogenously within a particular socio-economic environment? In this paper, we make use of a natural experiment to analyse the role of inflation experiences and institutions in the formation of individual inflation...
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In order to understand from where the profits or monetary profits of capitalists and firms emerge the author examined the phrase of Marx, 'Die Gesamtklasse der Kapitalisten kann nichts aus der Zirkulation herausziehen, was nicht vorher hineingeworfen war.' (The class of capitalists cannot...
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the economics domain. In the experiment we find that: 1) traditional economic models based on discounting alone cannot …; 2) our model, despite considering only a specific (exponential) form of discounting, can explain the data much better … basic predictions of discounting theories: the deviations are not random and there are clear systematic patterns of …
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