ERC Advanced Grant · 2017
Topics in Behavioral-Economics Theory
This proposal outlines projects that span a diverse set of specific topics in both the foundational and the more applied parts of behavioral-economics theory. In the foundational projects, I will develop broadly applicable models of individual decisionmaking that incorporate psychologically realistic assumptions about individuals, and that can be used by myself and others to study the implications of psychological phenomena for economic outcomes. I will (i) provide an attention-based theory of several central and hitherto unmodeled aspects of mental accounting; (ii) analyze the implications of overconfidence about one’s ability or prospects for learning about other economically important…
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