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standard search task as well as a lottery task designed to elicit utility functions. We find that search heuristics are not …Experimental studies of search behavior suggest that individuals stop searching earlier than predicted by the optimal … optimal conditional on utility functions departing from risk neutrality, or heuristics derived from limited cognitive …
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standard search task as well as a lottery task designed to elicit utility functions. We find that search heuristics are not …Experimental studies of search behavior suggest that individuals stop searching earlier than predicted by the optimal … optimal conditional on utility functions departing from risk neutrality, or heuristics derived from limited cognitive …
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This paper extends choice theory by allowing for the interaction between cognitive costs and imitative dynamics. The … order to disentangle different choice dynamics, they devise a laboratory experiment with a novel experimental task in which …
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financial traders individually learn how to use forecasting and/or trading anchor-and-adjustment heuristics by updating them …
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financial traders individually learn how to use forecasting and/or trading anchor-and-adjustment heuristics by updating them …
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paper evaluates several learning models in light of a laboratory experiment on responsiveness in a low-information dynamic … models accurately predict behavior. A further objective is to determine which heuristics, or rules of thumb, when …
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In this paper, we analyze a principal's optimal feedback policy in tournaments. We close a gap in the literature by assuming the principal to be unable to commit to a certain policy at the beginning of the tournament. Our analysis shows that in equilibrium the principal reveals intermediate...
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We report the results of an experiment on selective exposure to information. A decision maker interested in learning …. In line with the theory, subjects are more likely to seek confirmatory information when sources are symmetrically … source even when prior beliefs are strongly unbalanced and this source is less informative. Our experiment suggests that base …
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Avoiding information about adverse welfare consequences of self-interested decisions, or "strategic ignorance", is an important source of corruption, anti-social behavior and even atrocities. I show how existing experimental results on strategic ignorance can be rationalized as an equilibrium...
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