Essays in behavioural economics
This thesis contains three chapters studying questions of behavioural and experimental economics. Chapter 1, titled “Heterogeneity in lies and lying preferences”, develops a theoretical framework and an experimental design which I use to identify systematic patterns of lying behaviour in the presenc...
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| Tipo de documento: | tese |
| Estado: | Versão publicada |
| Data de publicação: | 2021 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | CBUC, CESCA |
| Repositório: | TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/671806 |
| Acesso em linha: | http://hdl.handle.net/10803/671806 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | Behavioral economics 33 |
| Resumo: | This thesis contains three chapters studying questions of behavioural and experimental economics. Chapter 1, titled “Heterogeneity in lies and lying preferences”, develops a theoretical framework and an experimental design which I use to identify systematic patterns of lying behaviour in the presence of heterogeneity of lies and decision-makers. I show that accounting for these patterns provides large gains in out-of-sample predictions of lying decisions. Chapter 2, titled “Eliciting preferences for truth-telling in a sample of politicians”, studies the connection between politicians’ truth-telling preferences and observable variables such as re-election success. The chapter has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Chapter 3, titled “Reasoning about others’ reasoning”, introduces an experimental design strategy to disentangle cognitive from beliefbased levels of play in a model of iterative reasoning based on observed choices in an experiment. The chapter has been published in the Journal of Economic Theory. |
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