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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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I experimentally examine whether feedback about others' choices provides an anchor for decision-making under ambiguity. In a between-subjects design I vary whether subjects learn choices made individually by a "peer" in a first part when facing the same task a second time, and whether prospects...
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According to disposition effect theory, people hold losing investments too long. However, many investors eventually … study integrates prospect theory, utility maximization theory, and theory on reference point adaptation to argue that the …
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This paper analyzes insurance demand under prospect theory in a simple model with two states of the world and fair … ; prospect theory ; flood insurance ; diminishing sensitivity ; loss aversion …
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Within the prospect theory the paper examines production and hedging decisions of a competitive firm under price … uncertainty. We consider the prospect theory for the firm's utility function in the two moment model known as (mu … theory, mean-variance model, price uncertainty …
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help explain several anomalies associated with prospect theory, including probability weighting, loss aversion, and framing …. Prospect theory's four-fold pattern of probability weighting predicts that decision makers favor long-shots, avoid near sure … those of prospect theory, they differ in some cases, allowing for tests between the theories. The theoretical predictions …
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In this study we propose an axiomatic theory of decision-making under risk that is based on a new approach to the … models that allow objective statistical dependence, as in Regret Theory, in our model the emphasis is on alternative …
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-run by expected utility maximisers with the share they would receive if their preferences were described by prospect theory … condition for individuals to obtain a higher share of the pie if their preferences obey prospect theory rather than expected … utility. I decompose the effect that the three features that characterise prospect theory preferences - reference point …
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We introduce a class of evolutionary game dynamics — <em>pairwise comparison dynamics</em> — under which revising agents choose a candidate strategy at random, switching to it with positive probability if and only if its payoff is higher than the agent’s current strategy. We prove that all such...
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reference state she compares it to. According to economic theory, the reference state is determined by past, present and future …
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