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Entscheidungstheorie 6,820 Decision theory 6,026 Theorie 3,052 Theory 3,038 USA 1,740 United States 1,735 Entscheidung 1,680 Decision 1,566 Entscheidung unter Unsicherheit 637 Decision under uncertainty 636 Experiment 604 Behavioral economics 454 Verhaltensökonomik 454 Erwartungsnutzen 441 Expected utility 441 Multi-criteria analysis 417 Multikriterielle Entscheidungsanalyse 417 Spieltheorie 392 Präferenztheorie 391 Theory of preferences 388 Game theory 354 Rationalität 343 Rationality 329 Risiko 329 Risk 322 Konsumentenverhalten 304 decision theory 303 Consumer behaviour 302 Fuzzy sets 212 Fuzzy-Set-Theorie 212 Decision under risk 210 Entscheidung unter Risiko 209 Unternehmen 204 Gruppenentscheidung 195 Mathematical programming 194 Mathematische Optimierung 194 Deutschland 185 Group decision-making 185 Germany 173 Risk aversion 173
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Book / Working Paper 3,740 Article 3,338 Journal 49 Other 2
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Article in journal 2,612 Aufsatz in Zeitschrift 2,612 Graue Literatur 1,315 Non-commercial literature 1,315 Working Paper 1,183 Arbeitspapier 1,156 Hochschulschrift 576 Aufsatz im Buch 570 Book section 570 Thesis 412 Collection of articles of several authors 270 Sammelwerk 270 Lehrbuch 163 Konferenzschrift 139 Textbook 139 Aufsatzsammlung 128 Bibliografie enthalten 87 Bibliography included 87 Dissertation u.a. Prüfungsschriften 71 Collection of articles written by one author 62 Conference proceedings 62 Sammlung 62 Case study 36 Fallstudie 36 Festschrift 30 Conference paper 23 Konferenzbeitrag 23 Reprint 19 Systematic review 17 Übersichtsarbeit 17 Commentary 16 Einführung 16 Kommentar 16 Handbook 14 Handbuch 14 Mehrbändiges Werk 12 Multi-volume publication 12 Glossar enthalten 9 Glossary included 9 Accompanied by computer file 6
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English 5,628 German 1,033 Undetermined 321 French 102 Italian 19 Polish 15 Spanish 14 Russian 7 Hungarian 3 Czech 2 Dutch 2 Portuguese 2 Romanian 2 Serbian 2 Danish 1 Finnish 1 Lithuanian 1 Swedish 1
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Güth, Werner 39 Bamberg, Günter 32 Marinacci, Massimo 28 Greco, Salvatore 27 Coenenberg, Adolf Gerhard 25 Hey, John Denis 25 Laux, Helmut 25 Manski, Charles F. 24 Weber, Martin 24 Gilboa, Itzhak 21 Karni, Edi 20 Maccheroni, Fabio 20 Rustichini, Aldo 19 Blavatskyy, Pavlo R. 18 Lindstädt, Hagen 18 Figueira, José Rui 17 Sutter, Matthias 17 Mongin, Philippe 16 Costa, Carlos A. Bana e 14 Eichberger, Jürgen 14 Eisenführ, Franz 14 Grant, Simon 14 Guiso, Luigi 14 Kelsey, David 14 Kliemt, Hartmut 14 Rubinstein, Ariel 14 Schmeidler, David 14 Tanguiane, Andranick S. 14 Woodford, Michael 14 Beach, Lee Roy 13 Ben-Haim, Yakov 13 Bernheim, Bert Douglas 13 Bonanno, Giacomo 13 Eliaz, Kfir 13 Ghosal, Sayantan 13 Xu, Zeshui 13 Blavatskyy, Pavlo 12 Brocas, Isabelle 12 Corrente, Salvatore 12 Hensher, David A. 12
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Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung Strategische Interaktion 35 National Bureau of Economic Research 19 Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 16 Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 16 Institut für Angewandte Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Unternehmensführung <Karlsruhe> 14 Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 7 Edward Elgar Publishing 6 Information Resources Management Association 6 INSEAD 5 London School of Economics and Political Science / Department of Operational Research 5 C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers 4 Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University 4 De Gruyter Oldenbourg 4 EconWPA 4 International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis 4 Johns Hopkins University / Department of Economics 4 Sonderforschungsbereich Quantifikation und Simulation Ökonomischer Prozesse 4 Alfred-Weber-Institut für Sozial- und Staatswissenschaften <Heidelberg> 3 Centre for Economic Policy Research 3 Department of Resource Economics, University of Nevada-Reno 3 Economics Department, University of Nevada-Reno 3 FernUniversität in Hagen 3 Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät 3 International Association for Fuzzy Set Management and Economy 3 Københavns Universitet / Økonomisk Institut 3 Russell Sage Foundation 3 Springer International Publishing 3 Technische Universität <München> / Lehrstuhl für Fördertechnik Materialfluß Logistik 3 Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research 3 University of Bonn, Germany 3 Universität St. Gallen 3 Verlag Dr. Kovač 3 Akademia Ekonomiczna Imienia Karola Adamieckiego w Katowicach 2 Arbeitskreis Quantitative Steuerlehre 2 Books on Demand GmbH <Norderstedt> 2 Center for Economic Research <Tilburg> 2 Center for the Study of Rationality, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2 Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) 2 Columbia University / Department of Economics 2 Decision Sciences Institute 2
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European journal of operational research : EJOR 112 Theory and decision : an international journal for multidisciplinary advances in decision science 75 Management science : journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences 62 Journal of economic theory 61 Working paper / National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. 59 Economic theory : official journal of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory 53 Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 48 Group decision and negotiation 47 Mathematical social sciences 47 Social choice and welfare 43 Journal of mathematical economics 42 Games and economic behavior 40 Lecture notes in economics and mathematical systems : LNEMS 40 The American economic review 39 Europäische Hochschulschriften / 5 38 Decision analysis : a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, INFORMS 35 Discussion paper / Centre for Economic Policy Research 35 Omega : the international journal of management science 35 Journal of behavioral decision making 34 Econometrica : journal of the Econometric Society, an internat. society for the advancement of economic theory in its relation to statistics and mathematics 33 Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik - Papers on Strategic Interaction 30 Economics letters 29 Discussion Paper 27 Journal of risk and uncertainty : JRU 27 Annals of operations research 25 Lecture notes in economics and mathematical systems : operations research, computer science, social science 25 Tinbergen Institute research series 25 International journal of production economics 24 Fuzzy optimization and decision making : a journal of modeling and computation under uncertainty 23 Journal of economic psychology : research in economic psychology and behavioral economics 23 CESifo working papers 22 Faculty & research / Insead : working paper series 22 Organizational behavior and human decision processes : a journal of fundamental research and theory in applied psychology 22 Springer-Lehrbuch 22 Revue économique : revue bimestrielle 20 Discussion paper / Tinbergen Institute 19 Experimental economics : a journal of the Economic Science Association 19 International series in operations research & management science 19 Journal of business economics : JBE 19 Journal of business research : JBR 19
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ECONIS (ZBW) 6,302 USB Cologne (EcoSocSci) 447 RePEc 227 USB Cologne (business full texts) 107 EconStor 35 BASE 10 Other ZBW resources 1
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Behavioral decision making in normative and descriptive views : a critical review of literature
Chai, Junyi; Weng, Zhiquan; Liu, Wenbin - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 10, pp. 1-14
Recent studies on decision analytics frequently refer to the topic of behavioral decision making (BDM), which focuses on behavioral components of decision analytics. This paper provides a critical review of literature for re-examining the relations between BDM and classical decision theories in...
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Revisiting the diagnosis of intertemporal preference reversals
Li, Zhihua; Loomes, Graham - In: Journal of risk and uncertainty 64 (2022) 1, pp. 19-41
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Consumer wealth
Tully, Stephanie M.; Sharma, Eesha - In: Consumer psychology review 5 (2022) 1, pp. 125-143
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Effects of self-other decision-making on time-based intertemporal choice
Zhao, Cui-Xia; Shen, Si-Chu; Li, Yan; Liu, Xin; Li, Shu - In: Journal of behavioral decision making 35 (2022) 1, pp. 1-11
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Speed, quality, and the optimal timing of complex decisions : field evidence
Sunde, Uwe; Zēgners, Dainis; Strittmatter, Anthony - 2022
This paper presents an empirical investigation of the relation between decision speed and decision quality for a real-world setting of cognitively-demanding decisions in which the timing of decisions is endogenous: professional chess. Move-by-move data provide exceptionally detailed and precise...
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A Markovian decision model of adaptive cancer treatment and quality of life
Bayer, Péter; Brown, Joel S.; Dubbeldam, Johan; Broom, Mark - 2022
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Belief adjustment : a double hurdle model and experimental evidence
Henckel, Timo; Menzies, Gordon Douglas; Moffatt, Peter G.; … - In: Experimental economics : a journal of the Economic … 25 (2022) 1, pp. 26-67
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A stress-test of economic rationality
Nitsch, Felix Jan - 2022
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Modeling multi-criteria decision analysis in residential PV adoption
Boumaiza, Ameni; Sanfilippo, Antonio; Mohandes, Nassma - In: Energy strategy reviews 39 (2022), pp. 1-13
Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) is a sub-discipline of operations research that aims to solve multi-objective optimization problems by evaluating competing factors in decision-making. MCDA supports multidimensional decision-making processes through the analysis of diverse inputs at...
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Speed, quality, and the optimal timing of complex decisions : field evidence
Strittmatter, Anthony; Sunde, Uwe; Zēgners, Dainis - 2022
This paper presents an empirical investigation of the relation between decision speed and decision quality for a real-world setting of cognitively-demanding decisions in which the timing of decisions is endogenous: professional chess. Move-by-move data provide exceptionally detailed and precise...
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An experimental study on strategic preference formation in two-sided matching markets
Shimada, Natsumi - 2022
We study an experiment of the students-proposing deferred acceptance mechanism (DA) in matching markets where firms are matched with students. We investigated the two different situations: (i) Students know firms' preferences and firms submit their true preference, (ii) Students know firms'...
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On the convex hull of K-additive 0-1 capacities and its application to model identification in decision making
Grabisch, Michel; Labreuche, Christophe - 2022
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Intra-hospital patient transportation system planning using Bilevel Decision Model
Maka, Thanawat; Kasemset, Chompoonoot; Phongthiya, Tinnakorn - In: LogForum : elektroniczne czasopismo naukowe z dziedziny … 18 (2022) 2, pp. 237-246
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A Bcs-Gde Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithm for Cchp Model with Decision Strategies
Sun, Jiaze; Deng, Jiahui; Li, Yang; Han, Nan - 2022
District energy systems can not only reduce energy consumption but also set energy supply dispatching schemes according to demand. However, not only the correlation between multiple optimization objectives, but also the time-varying energy demand is ignored when establishing and solving the...
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The Benefits of Coarse Preferences
Halpern, Joseph Y.; Heller, Yuval; Winter, Eyal - 2022
We study the strategic advantages of coarsening one’s utility by clustering nearby payoffs together (i.e., classifying them the same way). Our solution concept, coarse-utility equilibrium (CUE) requires that (1) each player maximizes her coarse utility, given the opponent’s strategy, and (2)...
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Errors and Monotonicity in Judicial Decision-Making
Bhuller, Manudeep; Sigstad, Henrik - 2022
Recent literature raises concerns about monotonicity conditions required to interpret IV estimates under heterogeneous effects. A prominent example involves random decision-maker IV designs where decision-makers exhibit systematic differences in both preferences and skills. We perform tests of...
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Tardy Learning, Cognitive Biases, and SMEs' Decision-Making
Zhou, Ye; Huang, Difang; Chen, Muzi; Wang, Yunlong; … - 2022
This paper examines the cognitive biases in small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) managerial beliefs under exogenous shocks and investigates whether such biases affect firms’ decision-making in the future. We use unique administrative survey data spanning the outbreak of COVID-19 in China...
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Correlation Neglect in Student-to-School Matching
Rees-Jones, Alex; Shorrer, Ran I.; Tergiman, Chloe - 2022
We present results from experiments containing incentivized school-choice scenarios. In these scenarios, we vary whether schools’ assessments of students are based on a common priority (inducing correlation in admissions decisions) or are based on independent assessments (eliminating...
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Learning in Random Utility Models Via Online Decision Problems
Melo, Emerson - 2022
This paper studies the Random Utility Model (RUM) in a repeated stochastic choice situation, in which the decision maker is imperfectly informed about the payoffs associated to each of the available alternatives. By embedding the RUM into an online decision problem, we develop a gradient-based...
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Treatment Decision-Making in Catastrophic Illness
Warner, Kenneth E. - 2022
It is well established that the social and economic environment of medical care distinguishes its provision from that of other goods and services. While scholars have studied the influences of this idiosyncratic environment, there is relatively little empirical knowledge about how it affects...
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On Sancionomics
Papava, Vladimer - 2022
For economists, the task of paramount importance is not only to generalize the experience of the effectiveness of previously introduced economic sanctions but also to study all kinds of effects (both positive and negative) of modern large-scale economic sanctions against Russia. The term...
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Anchored Strategic Reasoning
Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Seres, Gyula - 2022
Anchoring is a robust behavioral phenomenon modeled predominantly as a bias in individual judgment. We propose a game-theoretic model that considers players’ beliefs about others’ behavior as a mediator for the effect of the anchor on a player’s choice. The results establish that anchoring...
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Comparing attribute-based and memory-based preferential choice
Jarecki, Jana B.; Rieskamp, Jörg - In: Decision : official journal of Indian Institute of … 49 (2022) 1, pp. 65-90
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DECAS : a modern data-driven decision theory for big data and analytics
Elgendy, Nada; Elragal, Ahmed; Päivärinta, Tero - In: Journal of decision systems 31 (2022) 4, pp. 337-373
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Voluntary "donations" versus reward-oriented "contributions" : two experiments on framing in funding mechanisms
Adena, Maja; Huck, Steffen - 2022 - This version: 05 May 2022
In an artefactual field experiment, we implemented a crowdfunding campaign for an institute's summer party and compared donation and contribution framings. We found that the use of the word 'donation' generated higher revenue than the use of 'contribution'. While the individuals receiving the...
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A lifespan perspective on decision-making : a cross-sectional comparison of middle childhood, young adulthood, and older adulthood
Lindow, Stefanie - In: Journal of behavioral decision making 35 (2022) 3, pp. 1-17
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Behavioral economics of accounting : a review of archival research on individual decision makers
Hanlon, Michelle Lee; Yeung, Kelvin; Zuo, Luo - In: Contemporary accounting research : the journal of the … 39 (2022) 2, pp. 1150-1214
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What were you thinking? : decision theory as coherence test
Gilboa, Itzhak; Samuelson, Larry - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 17 (2022) 2, pp. 507-519
Decision theory can be used to test the logic of decision making - one may ask whether a given set of decisions can be justified by a decision-theoretic model. Indeed, in principal-agent settings, such justifications may be required - a manager of an investment fund may be asked what beliefs she...
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Two-stage majoritarian choice
Horan, Sean; Sprumont, Yves - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 17 (2022) 2, pp. 521-537
We propose a class of decisive collective choice rules that rely on a linear ordering to partition the majority relation into two acyclic relations. The first of these relations is used to pare down the set of the feasible alternatives into a shortlist while the second is used to make a final...
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Temptation and Commitment : Understanding Hand-to-Mouth Behavior
Attanasio, Orazio; Kovacs, Agnes; Moran, Patrick - 2022
This paper presents a model of consumption behavior that explains the presence of ‘wealthy hand-to-mouth’ consumers using a mechanism that differs from those analyzed previously. We show that a two-asset model with temptation preferences generates a demand for commitment and thus...
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Innovation Diffusion Among Case-Based Decision-Makers
leung, tsz kin - 2022
This paper analyzes a model of innovation diffusion with case-based individuals a la Gilboa and Schmeidler (1995, 1996, 1997), who decide whether to consume an incumbent’s or an entrant’s product based on their and their social neighbors’ previous consumption experience. I analyze how...
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Towards an EU Ethics Body
Alemanno, Alberto - 2022
This paper provides the first detailed legal and policy analysis of the EU ethics system existing within and across EU institutions.It focuses on both substantive ethics standards - applicable before, while in office and after - and their oversight institutional systems, via an...
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Nobel Laureate Herbert A. Simon : Pioneer of Artificial Intelligence and Trailblazer in Decision-Making
Sethi, Suresh - 2022
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming our world. The author describes the fascinating career of Herbert A. Simon, a father of artificial intelligence, renaissance man, and true polymath who made pioneering contributions to fields ranging from economics to psychology and from management...
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The role of care in economic decision making
2022
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Market interaction and the focus on consequences in moral decision making
Adrian, Nana; Crede, Ann-Kathrin; Gehrlein, Jonas - 2019
There is a long ongoing debate on whether interaction in a market influences moral decisions of individuals. While some studies show that individuals tend to decide less morally when being exposed to a market environment, other studies argue that the experience of market interaction promotes...
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Forecasting economic decisions under risk : the predictive importance of choice-process data
Mueller, Steffen Q.; Ring, Patrick; Schmidt, Maria - 2019 - Version: January 2019
We investigate various statistical methods for forecasting risky choices and identify important decision predictors. Subjects (n=44) are presented a series of 50/50 gambles that each involves a potential gain and a potential loss, and subjects can choose to either accept or reject a displayed...
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A general framework for studying contests
Bastani, Spencer; Giebe, Thomas; Gürtler, Oliver - 2019
We develop a general framework to study contests, containing the well-known models of Tullock (1980) and Lazear & Rosen (1981) as special cases. The contest outcome depends on players' effort and skill, the latter being subject to symmetric uncertainty. The model is tractable, because a...
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Behavioral decision making in normative and descriptive views: A critical review of literature
Chai, Junyi; Weng, Zhiquan; Liu, Wenbin - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 14 (2021) 10, pp. 1-14
Recent studies on decision analytics frequently refer to the topic of behavioral decision making (BDM), which focuses on behavioral components of decision analytics. This paper provides a critical review of literature for re-examining the relations between BDM and classical decision theories in...
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A Rational Foundation of Procrastination : A Theory of Non-stationary Context-dependent Time Preference
Lee, Joosung; Li, Daniel Z. - 2021
In a framework of sequential search, we define a decision maker’s time preference, which is endogenous to her optimal decisions and the environment. The induced time preference is non-stationary and context-dependent, which supports key empirical and experimental evidence, such as...
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Differences attract : an experimental study of focusing in economic choice
Andersson, Ola; Carlson, Jim Ingebretsen; Wengström, Erik - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 131 (2021) 639, pp. 2671-2692
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Decision Theory and Legal Process in EU Competition Law
Padilla, Jorge - 2021
In this brief essay I set out my views on the way in which competition assessments should be conducted so that they be consistent with the standard of proof in EU competition cases and Easterbrook’s error cost minimization principle. My goal is to develop a normative benchmark against which to...
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Transitivity, the Sorites Paradox, and Similarity-Based Decision-Making
Voorhoeve, Alex; Binmore, Kenneth - 2021
A persistent argument against the transitivity assumption of rational choice theory postulates a repeatable action that generates a significant benefit at the expense of a negligible cost. No matter how many times the action has been taken, it therefore seems reasonable for a decision-maker to...
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Behavioral Economics and Financial Decision Making
Lyons, Angela; Kass-Hanna, Josephine - 2021
Behavioral economics provides insights into how people process information and make decisions. It also helps to explain why and how people tend to make decisions that are not in their best interest, as opposed to what rational choice theory would suggest. This chapter provides an introduction to...
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Modelling the Effects of Decision Complexity on Choice Behaviour Under Risk
Hakim, Lukman - 2021
This paper is concerned with how the effect of task complexity on behavioural error is better modelled and how the better performance of a stochastic model can be understood in a behavioural sense. Three behavioural error models are considered in this study; each accommodates the complexity...
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Ambiguity Attitudes, Framing, and Consistency
Voorhoeve, Alex; Binmore, Kenneth; Stefánsson, Arnaldur; … - 2021
We use probability-matching variations on Ellsberg’s single-urn experiment to assess three questions: (1) How sensitive are ambiguity attitudes to changes from a gain to a loss frame? (2) How sensitive are ambiguity attitudes to making ambiguity easier to recognize? (3) What is the relation...
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A decision frame theory for uncertainty with applications to regret and choice acclimatization
Feige, Christian - 2021
An axiomatization of expected utility under uncertainty is extended in several steps to characterize more complicated decision models. Central to each step is a bijective mapping that, applied to the set of prospects, changes the framing of the decision problem. Static models of subjective...
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An example to illustrate several aspects of optimization theory in Managerial Economics
Lahiri, Somdeb - In: Managerial economics 22 (2021) 1, pp. 23-34
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Categorical Cognition : A Psychological Model of Categories and Identification in Decision Making
Fryer, Roland G.; Jackson, Matthew O. - 2021
There is a wealth of research in psychology demonstrating that agents process information with the aid of categories. In this paper we study this phenomenon in two parts. First, we build a model of how experiences are sorted into categories and how categorization affects decision making. Second,...
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Statistical Decision Functions with Judgment
Manganelli, Simone - 2021
A decision maker tests whether the gradient of the loss function evaluated at a judgmental decision is zero. If the test does not reject, the action is the judgmental decision. If the test rejects, the action sets the gradient equal to the boundary of the rejection region. This statistical...
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Rational inattention: a review
Maćkowiak, Bartosz; Matejka, Filip; Wiederholt, Mirko - 2021
We review the recent literature on rational inattention, identify the main theoretical mechanisms, and explain how it helps us understand a variety of phenomena across fields of economics. The theory of rational inattention assumes that agents cannot process all available information, but they...
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