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objective facts. A political decision involving both idiosyncratic preferences and scientific knowledge is considered. Voters … form motivated beliefs in order to improve their subjective anticipation of the future political outcome. In equilibrium …
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We test the effects of dual processing differences in both individual traits and decision states on risk taking. In an … emotion or reason, while simultaneously measuring individual decision-making traits. Our results show that decision …
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Dynamic consistency leads to Bayesian updating under expected utility. We ask what it implies for the updating of more general preferences. In this paper, we characterize dynamically consistent update rules for preference models satisfying ambiguity aversion. This characterization extends to...
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decision, we show that early offers are more likely to be accepted than (potential) later offers, despite early offers not …
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Many individuals have empathetic feelings towards animals but frequently consume meat. We investigate this "meat paradox" using insights from the literature on motivated reasoning in moral dilemmata. We develop a model where individuals form self-serving beliefs about the suffering of animals...
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We consider a general model of dynamic common agency with symmetric information. We focus on Markov perfect equilibria and characterize theequilibrium set for a refinement of the Markov perfect equilibria. Particular attention is given to the existence of a marginal contribution equilibrium...
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This paper analyzes the optimal entry into experience goods markets with vertically differentiated buyers. We consider the case where the value of the new product is imperfectly know, but common to all buyers (common values) as well as the case where the quality is different across buyers...
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The paper introduces a notion of complementarity (substitutability) of two signals which requires that in all decision …
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than to the variation in loss amountswhen they decide whether to buy the protective measure or not: choice decision. Yet …, theopposite is true when they decide the amount of willingness to pay for buying the protectivemeasure: payment decision. In …
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