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computational complexity of the decision problem. These results point to the context-dependence of what comes to mind and the …
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Using field and laboratory experiments, we demonstrate that the complexity of incentive schemes and worker bounded … rationality can affect effort provision, by shrouding attributes of the incentives. In our setting, complexity leads workers to … cause large shifts in behavior. Our results illustrate important implications of complexity for designing and regulating …
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We study two dimensions of complexity that may interfere with individual choice. The first one is object complexity … complexity, which increases when suboptimal alternatives become more similar to optimal ones. We develop a satisficing …, as the object complexity of an optimal (suboptimal) alternative increases, it becomes less (more) likely to be chosen …
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This exercise offers an innovative learning mechanism to model economic agent's decision-making process using a deep reinforcement learning algorithm. In particular, this AI agent is born in an economic environment with no information on the underlying economic structure and its own preference....
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We propose a theoretical explanation for the so-called "beauty premium". Our explanation is based entirely on search … interaction between frictional labour and marriage markets and establish the existence of a search equilibrium characterised by …
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In this paper we investigate the incentives of unemployed workers to wait for a recall when recall probabilities are endogenously determined by the waiting decisions of others. Because of a positive externality that arises when workers seek new employment, an excessive number of workers choose...
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Increased competition tends to benefit all buyers with increasing product variety and decreasing prices. However, if local and external market channels compete for the same class of products, increased competition from the external market crowds out local variety. Under local monopoly, local...
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We develop a three-stage model of abatement technology search, adoption, and deployment. Using this model, which draws … on search theory tools more frequently used in labour and monetary economics, we compare market-based and command …-and-control pollution control instruments with respect to the incentives each provides for abatement technology search and adoption …
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Algorithm-based decision support systems play an increasingly important role in decisions involving exploration tasks, such as product searches, portfolio choices, and human resource procurement. These tasks often involve a trade-off between exploration and exploitation, which can be highly...
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, structural estimates of present bias, hyperbolicity and transitivity violations - are driven by complexity rather than time or … intertemporal decisions. Second, intertemporal choice anomalies are highly correlated with indices of complexity responses including … to complexity severely inflates structural estimates of present bias. …
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