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This paper analyzes a boundedly rational decision maker who is uncertain about his preference and faces the following …-off there is an optimal number of goods that the decision maker wants to analyze before making his final choice. The choice of … with good consumer service can be a signal for high quality of the store. -- Decision making ; Bounded rationality ; Choice …
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How can economic theory explain the reasons why consumers adopt innovations? Using the example of innovations in washing machines two approaches are compared. The first focuses in the manner of household production theory on changes in constraints without specifying preferences, leading to the...
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, time preferences are elicited using incentivized choice experiments. The aggregate distributions of discount factors and …
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effort lab experiments with 550 subjects in 11 treatments and one baseline. Our results indicate that monetary incentives to …
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I experimentally examine whether feedback about others' choices provides an anchor for decision-making under ambiguity …
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We use data on households' deductible choices in auto and home insurance to estimate a structural model of risky choice that incorporates "standard" risk aversion (concave utility over final wealth), loss aversion, and nonlinear probability weighting. Our estimates indicate that nonlinear...
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We use data on insurance deductible choices to estimate a structural model of risky choice that incorporates "standard" risk aversion (diminishing marginal utility for wealth) and probability distortions. We find that probability distortions - characterized by substantial overweighting of small...
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Psychologists report that people make choices on the basis of "decision utilities'' that routinely overestimate the … "experienced utility'' consequences of these choices. This paper argues that this dichotomy between decision and experienced … conflict that is attenuated by separating decision and experienced utilities. …
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In a simple conceptual framework, we organize a multitude of phenomena related to the (mis)prediction of utility. Consequences in terms of distorted choices and lower wellbeing emerge if people have to trade-off between alternatives that are characterized by attributes satisfying extrinsic...
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In a simple conceptual framework, we organize a multitude of phenomena related to the (mis)prediction of utility. Consequences in terms of distorted choices and lower wellbeing emerge if people have to trade-off between alternatives that are characterized by attributes satisfying extrinsic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009753717