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Investors' belief updating differs for investments in a gain position versus those in a loss position and by the favorability of the news, leading to a anomalies in investment decisions. We propose a context-sensitive reinforcement learning model unifying these empirical findings. In a...
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We study the effects of monetary policy on aggregate consumption combining a heterogeneous agent model with measured expectations under different policy counterfactuals. We express the consumption of non-hand-to-mouth households as a function of expectations only and elicit all expectations...
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We use an experiment to test whether consumers optimally acquire information on energy costs in appliance markets where, like many contexts, consumers are poorly informed and make mistakes despite freely available information. To test for optimal information acquisition we compare the average...
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Platforms often display their products ahead of third-party products in search. Is this due to consumers preferring platform-owned products or platforms engaging in self-preferencing by biasing search towards their own products? What are the welfare implications? I develop a structural model of...
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We study the effects of monetary policy on aggregate consumption combining a heterogeneous agent model with measured expectations under different policy counterfactuals. We express the consumption of non-hand-to-mouth households as a function of expectations only and elicit all expectations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014262696
We study how experts influence consumer behavior and welfare by focusing on the Booker Prize. Leveraging the discontinuity created by the attribution of the prize, we show that readers receive the signal sent by the jury of the Booker and are persuaded to buy the awarded book but experience...
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are found. Over time, the underlying payoffs randomly change, i.e. display some volatility , which leads agents to react …-run invariant behavior and obtain the following conclusions: (a) Only if payoff volatility is not too high can the society sustain a … dense social network. (b) The social architecture endogenously responds to increased volatility by becoming more cohesive …
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. News volume and volatility amplify this attention gap. Attention appears causally related to perceived proximity: first … fewer flights after the outbreak. Finally, local attention predicts volatility, bid-ask spreads and nonlocal attention, not …
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Advances in information technology have fundamentally altered how we make decisions, as well as the range of alternative options we might consider when deciding. From fairly trivial decisions to important ones, our decisions are increasingly informed by online expert or “crowd-sourced”...
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