Browsing by Author "Apesteguía, José"

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  • A behavioral model of adaptation
    Apesteguía, José; Ballester, Miguel A.; Cuhadaroglu, Tugce (Elsevier, 2023)
    Adaptation refers to the process of changing behavior in response to a variation in the environment. We propose a model of an adaptive individual that contemplates two forces: on the one hand the individual benefits from ...
  • A characterization of sequential rationalizability
    Apesteguía, José; Ballester, Miguel A. (2008-05-01)
  • A foundation for strategic agenda voting
    Apesteguía, José; Ballester, Miguel A.; Masatlioglu, Yusufcan (2012-02-01)
  • A measure of rationality and welfare
    Apesteguía, José; Ballester, Miguel A. (2010-05-01)
  • A theory of reference-dependent behavior
    Apesteguía, José; Ballester, Miguel A. (2007-10-01)
  • Choice by sequential procedures
    Apesteguía, José; Ballester, Miguel A. (2012-02-01)
  • Copy trading
    Apesteguía, José; Oechssler, Jörg; Weidenholzer, Simon (2018-07-23)
    Copy trading allows traders in social networks to receive information on the success of other agents in financial markets and to directly copy their trades. Internet platforms like eToro, ZuluTrade, and Tradeo have attracted ...
  • Discrete choice estimation of risk aversion
    Apesteguía, José; Ballester, Miguel A. (2014-09-01)
    We analyze the use of discrete choice models for the estimation of risk aversion and show a fundamental flaw in the standard random utility model which is commonly used in the literature. Specifically, we find that given ...
  • Discrete choice estimation of time preferences
    Apesteguía, José; Ballester, Miguel A. (2014-08-01)
  • Essays in behavioral economics
    Rui, Guan (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2022-07-28)
    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 ...
  • Essays in behavioural economics
    Janezic, Katharina A. (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2021-05-18)
    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 ...
  • Essays on behavioral economics
    Puig Pomés, David (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-05-26)
    This thesis consists of three independent essays on decision theory, behavioral economics, and experimental economics. The first article (Chapter 2) studies variety-seeking behavior, an empirically well-documented driver ...
  • Essays on behavioral economics
    Sánchez Moscona, Daniel (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-07-22)
    This thesis consists of three independent essays on behavioral economic theory. The rst article (Chapter 2) builds a framework of rational decision-making with conformity. The approach in this chapter is axiomatic. I show ...
  • Essays on economic uncertainty
    Soupre, Matthieu (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-11-12)
    These essays propose different measures of economic uncertainty and evaluate its impact at the microeconomic and macroeconomic level. The first essay in Chapter 2 proposes a measure of macroeconomic uncertainty that allows ...
  • Imitation of peers in children and adults
    Apesteguía, José; Huck, Steffen; Oechssler, Jörg; Weidenholzer, Elke; Weidenholzer, Simon (MDPI, 2018)
    Imitation of the successful choices of others is a simple and superficially attractive learning rule. It has been shown to be an important driving force for the strategic behavior of (young) adults. In this study we examine ...
  • Monotone stochastic choice models: The case of risk and time preferences
    Apesteguía, José; Ballester, Miguel A. (2015-11-01)
  • On the complexity of rationalizing behavior
    Apesteguía, José; Ballester, Miguel A. (2007-09-01)
    We study the complexity of rationalizing choice behavior. We do so by analyzing two polar cases, and a number of intermediate ones. In our most structured case, that is where choice behavior is defined in universal choice ...
  • On the justice of voting systems
    Apesteguía, José; Ballester, Miguel A.; Ferrer, Rosa (2006-11-01)
    What are the best voting systems in terms of utilitarianism? Or in terms of maximin, or maximax? We study these questions for the case of three alternatives and a class of structurally equivalent voting rules. We show that ...
  • Promoting rule compliance in daily-life: Evidence from a randomized field experiment in the public libraries of Barcelona
    Apesteguía, José; Funk, Patricia; Iriberri, Nagore (2010-08-01)
  • Psychological pressure in competitive environments: Evidence from a randomized natural experiment
    Apesteguía, José; Palacios-Huerta, Ignacio (2008-10-01)
    Much like cognitive abilities, emotional skills can have major effects on perfor mance and economic outcomes. This paper studies the behavior of professional subjects involved in a dynamic competition in their own natural ...