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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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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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This paper presents some of the first large-scale survey evidence linking optimism to major economic choices. We create a novel measure of optimism using the Survey of Consumer Finance by comparing a person's self-reported life expectancy to that implied by statistical tables. Optimists are more...
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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 …
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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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A number of studies claim that aggregate managerial decision variables, such as aggregate equity issuance, have power … aggregate pseudo market timing bias for a variety of predictive regressions based on managerial decision variables. We find that …
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differences in underlying individual characteristics, or by biased decision makers. Becker (1957) proposed an outcome test for … bias leading to a large body of related empirical work, with recent innovations in settings where decision makers are … exogenously assigned to cases and vary progressively in their decision tendencies. We carefully examine what can be learned about …
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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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