Essays in behavioral economics
This thesis comprises three chapters on topics in behavioral and experimental economics. In the first chapter, I show formally that, in a limited attention framework, the choices made by a decision maker who considers at least two available alternatives under sequential elimination are consistent wi...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | CBUC, CESCA |
| Repositorio: | TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/675821 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10803/675821 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Behavioral economics Economia conductual 33 |
| Sumario: | This thesis comprises three chapters on topics in behavioral and experimental economics. In the first chapter, I show formally that, in a limited attention framework, the choices made by a decision maker who considers at least two available alternatives under sequential elimination are consistent with preference maximization, whereas this is not necessarily the case under the direct procedure. Furthermore, I implement a randomized controlled experiment, which finds causal evidence that sequential elimination leads to an economically meaningful improvement in individual consistency, especially for subjects with low cognitive ability. The second chapter studies the impacts of visual and auditory strategies on consumer behavior in mobile advertising by a novel data set of two large-scale randomized field experiments. The third chapter implements a randomized controlled experiment and finds causal evidence that providing auditory descriptions of decisions, compared to visual descriptions, leads to severe impairment in economic rationality. |
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