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Heuristics and public policy : decision making under bounded rationality
Dhami, Sanjit S.; Al-Nowaihi, Ali; Sunstein, Cass R. - 2018
How do human beings make decisions when, as the evidence indicates, the assumptions of the Bayesian rationality … rationality, with particular emphasis on growing formalization of those departures, which add necessary precision. We also explore … the relationship between bounded rationality and libertarian paternalism, or nudges, and show that some recent objections …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011926917
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Behavioral Economics and Financial Decision Making
Lyons, Angela; Kass-Hanna, Josephine - 2021
Behavioral economics provides insights into how people process information and make decisions. It also helps to explain why and how people tend to make decisions that are not in their best interest, as opposed to what rational choice theory would suggest. This chapter provides an introduction to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219565
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Nudging: an experiment on transparency, controlling for reactance and decision time
Schütze, Tobias; Spitzer, Carsten; Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2023
Is being informed about nudging detrimental to the effect of the nudge? This paper reports results from an experimental study (n = 623) testing the effects of transparency on the effectiveness of a default nudge while controlling for reactance and decision time. Overall, the data show that more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014323254
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Preference dynamics : a procedurally rational model of time and effort allocation
Krecik, Markus - 2024
Current time allocation and household production models face three major weaknesses: First, they only describe the average time allocation. Thus, information about the order of activities is lost. Therefore, it is impossible to describe the influence of activities on later ones. Such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480143
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A Note on the Risk Behavior and Death of Homo Economicus
Johansson-Stenman, Olof - 2006
Recent papers by Cox and Sadiraj (2006) and Rubinstein (2006) have pointed out that expected utility theory is more general than has sometimes been acknowledged, and can hence not be refuted as easily by means of experiments. While acknowledging this fact, this note nevertheless demonstrates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014055918
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Looming large or seeming small? : attitudes towards losses in a representative sample
Chapman, Jonathan; Snowberg, Erik; Wang, Stephanie; … - 2022
We measure individual-level loss aversion using three incentivized, representative surveys of the U.S. population (combined N = 3,000). We find that around 50% of the U.S. population is loss tolerant, with many participants accepting negative-expected-value gambles. This is counter to earlier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013284901
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What happiness research can tell us about self-control problems and utility misprediction
Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - 2006
Neoclassical economic theory rules out systematic errors in consumption choice. According to the basic view, individuals know what they choose. They are able to predict how much utility an activity or a good produces for them now and in the future and they can maximize their utility. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267422
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Does crime affect economic decisions? An empirical investigation of savings in a high-crime environment
De Mello, João M. P.; Zilberman, Eduardo - 2008
While most economic studies of crime have focused on its determinants, we study the reverse question: does crime affect economic behavior? Being such an important social phenomenon, one would expect crime to affect economic decisions. Using local data on crime rates and savings per capita in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807348
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Health club attendance, expectations and self-control
Garon, Jean-Denis; Masse, Alix; Michaud, Pierre-Carl - 2014
Using a unique dataset on health club attendance from Quebec, we look at the relationship between actual and expected attendance and how these relate to a reported measure of self-control problems at the time of contract signing. We find that a large majority of contract choices appear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010388643
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What happiness research can tell us about self-control problems and utility misprediction
Stutzer, Alois (contributor); Frey, Bruno S. (contributor) - 2006
Neoclassical economic theory rules out systematic errors in consumption choice. According to the basic view, individuals know what they choose. They are able to predict how much utility an activity or a good produces for them now and in the future and they can maximize their utility. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003274237