Search Results - subject:"Rational inattention"

From pandemics to portfolios: Long-term impacts of the 2009 H1N1 outbreak on household investment choices

Guo, Naijia; Leung, Ka Yui; Zhang, Shumeng - 2025

This study examines how experiencing a pandemic affects household investment behaviors. By leveraging cross-state variations in the H1N1 mortality rate in 2009, our difference-in-differences analysis reveals interesting findings. Although the pandemic does not significantly affect stock market...

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Rational inattention during an RCT

Maćkowiak, Bartosz; Wiederholt, Mirko - 2025

We introduce an information provision experiment into a standard dynamic rational inattention model. We derive … results to discuss findings in the empirical literature on information provision experiments that can be explained by rational … inattention of survey respondents and what this interpretation implies about behavior outside the survey. …

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Limited Self-Knowledge and Survey Response Behavior

Falk, Armin; Henkel, Luca; Neuber, Thomas; Strack, Philipp - 2025

We study response behavior in surveys and propose a method to identify and improve the informativeness of survey evidence. First, we develop a choice model of survey response behavior under the assumption that responses imperfectly reveal respondents' characteristics due to limited...

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