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This study attempts to combine two traditional fields in microeconomics: individual decision making under risk and … decision making in an interpersonal context. The influence of social comparison on risky choices is explored in an experiment … lower than all possible payoffs of the decision maker. In the neutral context social referent and decision maker will always …
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Economists have become increasingly interested in using attention to explain behavioral patterns both on the micro and macro level. This has resulted in several disparate theoretical approaches. Some, like rational inattention, assume a "top-down" model of executive optimization. Others, like...
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We examine the risky choices of contestants in the popular TV game show “Deal or No Deal” and related classroom experiments. Contrary to the traditional view of expected utility theory, the choices can be explained in large part by previous outcomes experienced during the game. Risk aversion...
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variable is the particular decision stage at which a global risk is resolved: (i) before the investment decision; (ii) after … the investment decision, but before the resolution of the decision risk; (iii) after the resolution of the decision risk …. Dependent on the timing of the global risk different combinations of anticipated and experienced emotions influence decision …
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This experimental study is concerned with the impact of the timing of the resolution of risk onpeople's willingness to take risks, with a special focus on the role of affect. While the importanceof anticipatory emotions has so far been only inferred from decisions regarding hypothetical...
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This paper considers a general class of stochastic dynamic choice models with discrete and continuous decision …
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psychophysics, in which deviations from average behavior are termed (statistical) errors; and the latter's work on decision theory … a new descriptive theory of human decision making in the real world, coined Heuristics and Biases. The 1979 Econometrica …
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This paper points out the importance of Stochastic Dominance (SD) efficient sets being convex. We reviewclassic convexity and efficient set characterization results on SD efficiency of a given portfolio relative to adiversified set of assets and generalize them in the following aspects. First,...
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