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preferences. Among the behavioral patterns that allow for a clear-cut interpretation on the decision level, we find that roughly … almost half of our subjects. Among those, roughly 24%are rational expected utility maximizers, 24% make occasional mistakes …
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prompted to abandon her prior. However, potential posteriors may induce her to take actions that generate a lower utility in … posteriors lead to larger utility than the prior. In choosing her belief, the agent optimally trades off these psychological … are information seeking otherwise. Because belief updating depends on the decision problem in which new information is …
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This paper investigates how migration and location choice decisions depend on a large set of location characteristics, with particular focus on measuring the importance and nature of the non-monetary cost of moving. We employ a stated-preference approach to elicit respondents' choice...
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Beliefs are a central determinant of behavior. Recent models assume that beliefs about or the anticipation of future consumption have direct utilityconsequences. This gives rise to informational preferences, i.e., preferences over the timing and structure of information. Using a novel and...
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general discounted utility model which encompasses the main empirically supported discounted utility models. We show that our … axioms on preferences are satisfied in our general discounted utility model. Finally, we discuss the various explanations of …
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, agents can either decide rationally according to expected utility theory or intuitively according to case-based decision …We study the influence of reason and intuition on decision making over time. Facing a sequence of similar problems …
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function of the group.s wealth level, or equivalently, that the representative agent has a state-dependent utility function. We …
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We formulate a simple quantum decision model of the Ellsberg paradox. We report the results of an experiment we …
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Most studies of gender discrimination consider how male versus female candidates are assessed given otherwise identical information about them. But, in many settings of interest, evaluators have a choice about how much information to acquire about a candidate before making a final assessment. We...
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In prosocial decisions, decision-makers are inherently uncertain about how their decisions impact others’ utility – we …
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