An empirical investigation into the propensity of reckless decision making within the high pressure environment of Deal or No Deal
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Decision making under uncertainty; behavioural economics; behavioural finance; biases & heuristics; Prospect Theory.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C0 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - General
- C10 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - General
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2015-09-26 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-UPT-2015-09-26 (Utility Models and Prospect Theory)
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