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Costly Information Acquisition: Experimental Analysis of a Boundedly Rational Model
Ist Teil von
The American economic review, 2006-09, Vol.96 (4), p.1043-1068
Ort / Verlag
Nashville: American Economic Association
Erscheinungsjahr
2006
Quelle
EBSCOhost Business Source Ultimate
Beschreibungen/Notizen
The directed cognition model assumes that agents use partially myopic option-value calculations to select their next cognitive operation. The current paper tests this model by studying information acquisition in two experiments. In the first experiment, information acquisition has an explicit financial cost. In the second experiment, information acquisition is costly because time is scarce. The directed cognition model successfully predicts aggregate information acquisition patterns in these experiments. When the directed cognition model and the fully rational model make demonstrably different predictions, the directed cognition model better matches the laboratory evidence.