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bounded rationality. Experimentally observed choice behavior in various decision tasks is used to assess heterogeneity in how … regarding concerns nor risk attitude matter and probability of the binary chance move is (optimal) choice …-irrelevant, categorizing decision types relies on parameter dependence and choice adaptations. We find that most participants reduce …
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Consumers often have to decide whether to acquire information in high-stakes decision domains. We study women in …
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We investigate whether depleting people's cognitive resources (or "willpower") affects the degree to which they are susceptible to framing effects. Recent research in social psychology and economics has suggested that willpower is a resource that can be temporarily depleted and that a depleted...
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planning horizons. Moreover, this hypothesis is tested in the cases of decision making under certainty, risk and uncertainty … deviations are considered, results are confirmed only in the case of decision making under uncertainty. This second finding has … been interpreted as suggesting that uncertainty on income seems to prevent participants from improving their decision …
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but did not affect choice quality. It seems that high time delays nudged decision-makers to think twice about how much and …
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using a dynamic choice model that allows decision makers to both discount the future (be myopic) and be subject to random …
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elicit individual risk preferences according to Cumulative Prospect Theory. Applying a latent class model to the choice data …' tastes in typical contract attributes of health insurances and to investigate their relationship with individual risk … helps consumers to choose contracts, which are in line with their individual risk preferences. Our results reveal valuable …
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This paper tests how subjects behave in an intertemporal consumption/saving experiment when borrowing is allowed and whether subjects treat debt differently than savings. Two treatments create environments where either saving or borrowing is required for optimal consumption. Since both...
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arises due to the interplay of two goals in decision-making, the goal to arrive at a desired conclusion (directional goal …
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We experimentally investigate purchase decisions with linear and non-linear pricing under risk. The experiment is based … test standard decision theoretic predictions concerning purchasing behavior in a rebate and a discount scheme. We … discuss how our results can be explained by decision heuristics …
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