Lejarraga, Tomás (Date of defense: 2009-07-09)
Esta tesis incluye tres capítulos que exploran diferentes aspectos de la distinción entre decisiones desde la descripción y decisiones desde la experiencia. El capítulo 1 estudia escenarios de decisión ...
Kolev, Gueorgui I. (Date of defense: 2009-12-11)
Esta tesis consiste de tres ensayos. En el primero, documentamos la correlación imaginaria entre las decisiones de compensación de los ejecutivos (CEO) al demostrar que el hándicap de los ejecutivos que ...
Sereevinyayut, Piya (Date of defense: 2013-09-25)
This dissertation examines how people aggregate quantitative advices to reach their own estimates. Each chapter explores a different situation that could affect how advices are evaluated, and consequentially ...
Müller-Trede, Johannes (Date of defense: 2012-05-04)
The three chapters of this thesis investigate social aspects of judgment and decision making. Chapter One analyses the consequences of making decisions based on predictions of future well-being, and the ...
Schwandt, Hannes (Date of defense: 2012-06-19)
The three chapters of this thesis investigate different aspects of the economics of health and wellbeing. The first chapter tests the rationality of life satisfaction forecasts. Contrary to the rational ...
Reutskaja, Elena (Date of defense: 2008-12-10)
Whereas people are typically thought to be better off with more choices, large sets may lead to "choice paralysis". This thesis explores the processes underlying the choice from multiple alternatives ...
Stojić, Hrvoje (Date of defense: 2017-01-17)
This thesis consists of three studies investigating the strategy selection problem and the role of function learning in human decision making. Chapter 1 examines how people learn which decision strategy ...
Maras, Marta (Date of defense: 2012-09-03)
The three chapters of this thesis investigate the decision-making processes behind financial and donation behaviour of individuals. Chapter One studies the impact of prior learning and competition on ...
Bellés Obrero, Cristina Adelaida (Date of defense: 2017-09-15)
This dissertation consists of three chapters that investigate students’ and teachers’ incentive programs, and the intergenerational infant health consequences of a labor market policy. In the first ...
Giusti, Giovanni (Date of defense: 2014-11-14)
This thesis is composed of three essays. In the first essay (joint with Janet Jiang and Xiping Xu) we study asset price bubbles in a laboratory experiment. By introducing interest payments on cash we ...