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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"present bias"”.
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Overcoming Present Bias in Engineering Design and Construction with Future Thinking and Generative AI
Present bias—the tendency to favor immediate gains over long-term benefits—can negatively affect design decisions in construction engineering. Designers often prioritize short-term economic gains that compromises the resilience of the asset, leading to increased cost of remediation in the future. …
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Essays on Health Economics
… processes: subjective expectation bias and time-inconsistent preferences. In Chapter I, I look at how individuals' own subjective expectations about certain future events are different from what actually happens in the future, even after controlling for individuals' private …
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Essays on Decisions Involving Recurring Financial Events
… consequences impact how consumers mentally represent the purchase? Taken together, this dissertation explores how consumers mentally represent recurring outcomes and express these preferences through choice. The first essay explores the relationship between individual differences in time …
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Essays on Contest Theory Experiments and Revealed Time Preference Models
… develop an empirical method to model perceptual present and time inconsistency (Chapter 4). Chapter 2 examines how the weight and the ordered weights in battles affect the behavior in sequential multi-battle contests with an experiment. We find robustly that the weight of the current battle …
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Essays in Microeconomic Theory
… we study an information design problem where a present biased agent could commit to an information choice to help herself to save more that she would have. We provide a full characterization of the optimal information choice for a risk averse present biased agent. After that, as an effort to …
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Nudging, transparency and rationality: An experimental investigation
… “Happy, healthy, wealthy and rational: Are biases harmful?” I conduct a quasi-experimental survey to investigate whether or not five biases and fallacies (present bias, sunk cost fallacy, loss aversion, gambler’s fallacy and impact bias) affect the likelihood of depression, of an individual …
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Essays in Empirical Policy Evaluation: COVID-19 fiscal policy and the early release of superannuation
… model, demonstrating that only under present bias (B = 0.58) can we reconcile the observed magnitude and frequency of the spending response and pre-withdrawal saving behaviour. The program therefore presents a sharp trade-off between effective macroeconomic stimulus and suboptimal …
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Essays in Empirical Policy Evaluation: COVID-19 fiscal policy and the early release of superannuation
… model, demonstrating that only under present bias (B = 0.58) can we reconcile the observed magnitude and frequency of the spending response and pre-withdrawal saving behaviour. The program therefore presents a sharp trade-off between effective macroeconomic stimulus and suboptimal …
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Over-indebtedness and consequences for well-being
Financial stress is often caused by unexpected circumstances beyond our control for example shocks or changes in the wider political, economic and social environments or at the household level. Households, even those that are income rich or liquidity unconstrained, can be disrupted by unexpected …