Calendrier du 22 octobre 2021
Casual Friday Development Seminar - Brown Bag Seminar
Du 22/10/2021 de 12:45 à 13:45
R1-09
PINTO Gustavo (PUC-Rio)
Do extreme events affect culture? Evidence from Japan
PSE Internal Seminar
Du 22/10/2021 de 12:30 à 14:00
R2-01
STANCANELLI Elena(PSE)
STEWART Colin(University of Toronto)
Attention Please!
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We study the impact of manipulating the attention of a decision-maker who learns
sequentially about a number of items before making a choice. Under natural assumptions on the decision-maker’s strategy, directing attention toward one item increases its
likelihood of being chosen regardless of its value. This result applies when the decisionmaker can reject all items in favor of an outside option with known value; if no outside
option is available, the direction of the effect of manipulation depends on the value of
the item. A similar result applies to manipulation of choices in bandit problems.
http://individual.utoronto.ca/colinstewart/ap.pdf