The Psychology of Economic Decisions: Volume Two: Reasons and Choices: 2 - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0199257213 ISBN 13: 9780199257218

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2003

Riassunto

This volume brings together contributions to the burgeoning research area of behavioral economics from a number of well-known international scholars in the field. Topics covered include 'irrational' conducts; imperfect self-knowledge; imperfect memory; time and utility; and experimental practices in psychology, economics, and finance. This book will provide a point of entry to anyone wishing to discover what the intellectual terrain between economics and psychology looks like.

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L'autore:

Isabelle Brocas is Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California, and Assistant Professor (on leave) at the Free University of Brussels. She is also a research affiliate at CEPR, a research advisor at EERC (Russia), and co-editor of the 'Annals of Marie Curie Fellows Association'. Juan D. Carrillo is Associate Professor at the University of Southern California, and is currently on leave from the Free University of Brussels. He is also a research affiliate at CEPR, a research advisor at EERC (Russia), and Associate Editor of the Spanish Economic Review.

Contenuti:

• 0: Isabelle Brocas and Juan D. Carrillo: Introduction
• PART I. BELIEFS: ORIGINS, FORMATION, AND EVOLUTION
• 1: Jon Elster: Costs and constraints in the economy of the mind
• 2: Cade Massey and George Wu: Understanding under- and over-reaction
• 3: Barbara Mellers and A. Peter McGraw: Self-serving beliefs and the pleasure of outcomes
• PART II. DYNAMIC CHOICES: CONSISTENCY, COMMITMENT AND INTERTEMPORAL SEPARABILITY
• 4: Isabelle Brocas, Juan D. Carrillo and Mathias Dewatripont: Commitment devices under self-control problems: an overview
• 5: Ignacio Palacios-Huerta: Consistent intertemporal decision making through memory and anticipation
• 6: Robin Cubitt, Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden: Dynamic decisions under uncertainty: some recent evidence from economics and psychology
• PART III. LIMITED COGNITION: ATTENTION, PREFERENCE FORMATION AND RISK EVALUATION
• 7: Colin F. Camerer and Eric Johnson: Thinking about attention in games: backward and forward induction
• 8: Dan Ariely, George Loewenstein and Drazen Prelec: Arbitrarily coherent preferences
• 9: Elke U. Weber: Perception matters: psychophysics for economists
• PART IV. AFFECTIVE BEHAVIOR: THE ROLE OF EMOTIONS IN DECISION-MAKING
• 10: Thane S. Pittman and Orit E. Tykocinski: The dark-side of opportunity: regret, disappointment and the cost of prospects
• 11: Ralph Erber, Maureen Wang Erber and Jennifer Poe: Mood regulation and decision-making: is irrational exuberance really a problem?
• 12: Jonathan J. Koehler: Which chance was lost? The psychology of damage awards under the loss of chance doctrine

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• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0199257213
• ISBN 13: 9780199257218
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 264
• Redattore: Brocas Isabelle, Carrillo Juan D.