A target-based foundation for the "hard-easy effect" bias
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- Robert Bordley & Marco Licalzi & Luisa Tibiletti, 2017. "A Target-Based Foundation for the “Hard-Easy Effect” Bias," Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics, in: Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin & Hakan Danis & Ender Demir & Ugur Can (ed.), Country Experiences in Economic Development, Management and Entrepreneurship, pages 659-671, Springer.
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Keywords
Expected utility; Hard-easy effect bias; Endowment effect bias; Sunk cost effect bias; Benchmarking procedure; Loss-gain asymmetry; van Zwet skewness conditions;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2014-11-17 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-MIC-2014-11-17 (Microeconomics)
- NEP-UPT-2014-11-17 (Utility Models and Prospect Theory)
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