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on Cognitive and Behavioural Economics |
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Issue of 2025–04–14
three papers chosen by Marco Novarese, Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale |
| By: | Gelden, Victoria |
| Abstract: | Recently, there has been a growing interest in the use of eye gaze. through a well-established gaze tracking method in psychology. The study of economic decision making. The purpose is to find Behavioral insights that are not basedly available Based only on observed choice data. At the same time, the opposite with expensive and complex procedures such as fMRI; Eye-tracking allows subjects to be tested under certain conditions. Standard tests showed similar conditions. Behavioral experiments. |
| Date: | 2023–05–24 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:osfxxx:h6stv_v1 |
| By: | Philipp Sternal |
| Abstract: | A growing number of studies suggest that individuals are cynical about others’ behavior. But these findings often rely on self-reported rather than actual behavior as benchmark. A well-documented limitation of self-reports is their tendency to overstate good behavior. I introduce a simple, portable test to assess the extent to which inattention to others’ potential misreporting drives apparently cynical beliefs about stated behavior. Drawing people’s attention to the possibility of misreporting in self-reports increases beliefs about others’ stated desirable climate and health behaviors by an average of 0.33 standard deviations, substantially reducing apparent cynicism. |
| Keywords: | Misperception, social desirability, attention |
| JEL: | C90 D83 D91 |
| Date: | 2025–03 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zur:econwp:465 |
| By: | Massimo Cervesato (Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) |
| Abstract: | In this paper, we aim to shed new light on the methodology that Elinor Ostrom used to study real institutional situations by analyzing the specific theoretical influences that led her to mobilize the notion of complexity. We show the hitherto neglected decisive influence on her work of the "sciences of the artificial", a term coined by the political scientist, economist and precursor of systems thinking, Herbert A. Simon. On several occasions, Ostrom described Simon's book The Sciences of the Artificial as the precursor of a new methodology upon which she relied to understand the most complex system of all: human society. We thus demonstrate that the systems-engineering approach, in particular as established by Simon, played a greater role in Ostrom's work than is usually assumed. This way, we expect to provide a more precise understanding of the notion of complexity she used and the methodological choices that resulted from it. In so doing, we also illustrate how an interdisciplinary approach based on the notion of complexity can concretely be used in institutional economics |
| Keywords: | Ostrom (Elinor); complexity; Economic Methodology; Simon (Herbert A.); Systems Science; Institutional Analysis |
| JEL: | B25 B31 B41 B52 |
| Date: | 2025–03 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:mse:cesdoc:25007 |