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Attention and Framing

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  • Mihir Bhattacharya

    (Department of Economics, Ashoka University)

  • Saptarshi Mukherjee

    (Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi)

  • Ruhi Sonal

    (Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi)

Abstract

We consider individual decision-making where every alternative appears with a frame (a la Salant and Rubinstein (2008)). The decision maker is subject to inattention due to framing effects that leads to random choice. We characterize a frame-based stochastic choice rule according to which the choice probability of an alternative (say, x) is the probability with which attention is drawn by its frame and not by the frames which are associated with the alternatives that beat x according to a complete binary relation.

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  • Mihir Bhattacharya & Saptarshi Mukherjee & Ruhi Sonal, 2019. "Attention and Framing," Working Papers 18, Ashoka University, Department of Economics.
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    1. Andrew Caplin & Daniel J. Martin, 2020. "Framing, Information, and Welfare," NBER Working Papers 27265, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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