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Zusatztext A fascinating and timely book. Informationen zum Autor Isabelle Brocas is at the Department of Economics, Columbia University. She is also a research affiliate at CEPR, and co-editor of the Annals of Marie Curie Fellows Association.Juan D. Carrillo is Associate Professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He is also a research affiliate at CEPR, and Associate Editor of the Spanish Economic Review. Klappentext A collection of carefully selected contributions to behavioral economics from some of the leading international scholars in the field. Designed to fully complement Volume One, topics covered include preferences, behavioral game theory, motivated mental states and emotions and decision making. The text brings together contributions to the burgeoning research area of behavioural economics from a number of well-known scholars in the field. Topics covered include irrational conducts, imperfect memory, economics and finance. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I: The Causes and Consequences of 'Irrational' Conducts 1: Roy F. Baumeister: The Psychology of Irrationality: Why people make foolish, self-defeating choices 2: Kent Berridge: Irrational Pursuit: Hyper-incentives from a visceral brain 3: Jonathan W. Schooler, Daniel Ariely, and George Loewenstein: The Pursuit and Assessment of Happiness May Be Self-Defeating Part II: Imperfect Self-Knowledge and the Role of Information 4: Andrew Caplin and John Leahy: Behavioral Policy 5: Isabelle Brocas and Juan D. Carrillo: Information and Self-Control 6: Ronit Bodner and Drazen Prelec: Self-Signaling and Diagnostic Utility in Everyday Decision-Making Part III: Imperfect Memory and Limited Capacity to Process Information 7: Itzhak Gilboa and Eva Gilboa-Schechtman: Mental Accounting and the Absentminded Driver 8: Roland Benabou and Jean Tirole: Self-Knowledge and Self-Regulation: An economic approach 9: Xavier Gabaix and David Laibson: A New Challenge for Economics: 'The frame problem' Part IV: Time and Utility 10: Daniel Kahneman: Experienced Utility and Objective Happiness: A moment-based approach 11: Timothy D. Wilson, Daniel Gilbert, and David B. Centerbar: Making Sense: The causes of emotional evanescence 12: Yaacov Trope and Nira Liberman: Temporal Construal Theory of Time-Dependent Preferences Part V: Experimental Practices in Psychology, Economics, and Finance 13: Ralph Hertwig and Andreas Ortmann: Economists' and Psychologists' Experimental Practices: How they differ, why they differ, and how they could converge 14: Denis Hilton: Psychology and the Financial Markets: Applications to understanding and remedying irrational decision-making 15: Ernst Fehr and Jean-Robert Tyran: What Causes Nominal Inertia? Insights from experimental economics ...
