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We document that prior portfolio choices influence investors' expectations about asset values, and their future choices. We find that people update more from information consistent with their prior choices, leading to sticky portfolios over time. These effects are related to how the brain's...
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no action at a decision point. Consumers may face automatic renewal, automatic switching, or non-purchase defaults …
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'Notice and Choice' has been a mainstay of policies designed to safeguard consumer privacy. This paper investigates distortions in consumer behavior when faced with notice and choice which may limit the ability of consumers to safeguard their privacy using field experiment data from the MIT...
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Information and communication technology now enables firms to collect detailed and potentially intrusive data about their customers both easily and cheaply. This means that privacy concerns are no longer limited to government surveillance and public figures' private lives. The empirical...
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Thanks to big data, artificial intelligence (AI) has spurred exciting innovations. In the meantime, AI and big data are reshaping the risk in consumer privacy and data security. In this essay, I first define the nature of the problem and then present a few facts about the ongoing risk. The bulk...
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We analyze the costs and benefits of using social image to foster virtuous behavior. A Principal seeks to motivate reputation-conscious agents to supply a public good. Each agent chooses how much to contribute based on his own mix of public-spiritedness, private signal about the value of the...
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revisiting prior choices, can lead to decision errors. This paper explores the enrollment decisions of Medicare beneficiaries in …
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allocations is not rejected in models that allow more than two household members to have agency in decision-making. In contrast … decision-making within complex households.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and residents of …
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We examine how 17 behavioral biases relate to each other, to other decision inputs, and to decision outputs. Most … personality traits—with some expected exceptions. Accounting for this correlation structure, we reduce our 29 decision inputs to … this taxonomy for various approaches to modeling influences of behavioral biases on decision making …
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errors in decision making are inevitable. Moreover, under the appropriate conditions, these decisions are random conditional … situations than would be possible with randomized control trials. This point is illustrated with data from medical decision …
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