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Recent studies in psychology and neuroscience find that fictional works exert strong influence on readers and shape their opinions and worldviews. We study the Potterian economy, which we compare to economic models, to assess how Harry Potter books affect economic literacy. We find that some...
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Recent studies in psychology and neuroscience find that fictional works exert strong influence on readers and shape their opinions and worldviews. We study the Potterian economy, which we compare to economic models, to assess how Harry Potter books affect economic literacy. We find that some...
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Recent studies in psychology and neuroscience offer systematic evidence that fictional works exert a surprisingly strong influence on readers and have the power to shape their opinions and worldviews. Building on these findings, we study 'Potterian economics', the economic ideas, insights, and...
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ability. Heidhues et al. (2018) characterise overconfident and underconfident individuals' equilibrium beliefs and learning …, whose effect they cannot separately identify. At the same time, many individuals have incorrect beliefs about their own … about the marker's accuracy (the fundamental) over time. We use machine learning to identify heterogeneous effects …
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Decisions under ambiguity depend on the beliefs regarding possible scenarios and the attitude towards ambiguity. This … paper exclusively focuses on beliefs, and beliefs are measured independently from attitudes, in contrast to many previous … environment. As a main contribution, we recover the entire belief distribution of individual subjects and scrutinize how beliefs …
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This paper investigates beliefs in an ambiguous environment. In contrast to many previous studies, the beliefs … distribution of subjective beliefs and examine how beliefs are updated, incorporating new information. We find that beliefs and … updating rules are quite heterogeneous. For most subjects, we can reject the objective equality hypothesis that beliefs are …
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all stylized facts observed in aggregate price fluctuations and individual forecasting behaviour in recent learning to …. -- Learning ; heterogeneous expectations ; genetic algorithms ; experimental economics …
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We propose a framework in order to econometrically estimate case-based learning and apply it to empirical data from … twelve 2 × 2 mixed strategy equilibria experiments. Case-based learning allows agents to explicitly incorporate information …-based learning to other learning models (reinforcement learning and self-tuned experience weighted attraction learning) while using …
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